I'm not such a great writer on this list, but I'm an affectioned fan of MINA, and I think that if you can show the evolution of the performance as well of the functionalities, MINA would grow its (already fantastic) credibility.
I'm totally for the standard benchmark idea! also that way people could get an idea of how much performance bottlenecks are due to MINA or too the user-defined structure over it.
