In the business space, there was a consortium of companies/contributors that got together to try to solve enterprise messaging (not IM/person-to-person messagin

In the business space, there was a consortium of companies/contributors that got together to try to solve enterprise messaging (not IM/person-to-person messaging, but messaging computers/message buses/queues/etc.) That consortium created AMQP, which is a fucking abomination of a protocol. You can read through the spec and see the design-by-committee chimeric parts. I'm not convinced that it's a good approach, basically.