My suggestion concerns not just the import/export but the outliner as well. I work in a number of applications and Namespaces are what I hate most about Maya. I spend a good deal of time naming my objects so that I can tell what they are. It is frustrating to the point of madness that Maya destroys my naming convention each time I import something. I don't want Maya to rename ANYTHING. If something needs to be renamed, then I want to do it without having to worry about things being changed without my okay. I have not as yet found a way to disable this feature so I'm asking you to include a setting that will enable us to completely disable namespaces. Just adding the feature in MEL to remove namespaces isn't enough --it's still a step you have to do that you shouldn't. I don't need Maya to be a nanny. I can name and group things on my own.