To paraphrase, you would support dropping about half the modules in the core in 5.10 (or .12 or whatever). That list of modules would probably include (if I'm reading you right):

• The CGI::, HTML::, LWP::, Net::, URI::, and HTTP:: namespaces
• The Class:: namespace
• The File:: and IPC:: namespaces (including File::Spec and File::Basename)
• List::Util and Scalar::Util
• The Math:: namespace
• The Memoize:: namespace
• All the DBMs and DB_File
• Search::Dict
• The Text:: namespace
• The Win32 module
• WWW::RobotsRules (and friends)

I'm in complete agreement with your three criteria, but I don't think most people involved in this debate realize not only what's in the core, but also what they would consider to be "core".

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