For those of you not familiar, DNG is Adobe's proposed standard for camera RAW files link here: http://www.adobe.com/products/dng/main.html

I'm very excited about this myself and think it will be a great thing for the industry and software manufacturers.

A petition has been started that you can sign which indicates that you believe it to be important and will be an important factor in your decision of future purchases.

You can get to the petition from the page which is hosting it here: http://www.rawformat.com/

I've already signed it myself