Steve, do you think that having a familiarity with the way that namespaces working inside of Softimage Models (not just Reference Models) provides an advantage for those looking to utilise USD in their pipeline. The parallels I was alluding to originally was inspired by a couple of old posts by Andy Nicolas and Helge Mathee on the Softimage Blog back in 2005.
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