FWIW, my $0.02: I think this problem has been noticed and solved over and over again. If you squint a little stuff like CORBA are in the same stew pot, eh? T

FWIW, my $0.02: I think this problem has been noticed and solved over and over again. If you squint a little stuff like CORBA are in the same stew pot, eh? There's relatively recent work on collaborative editing and CRDTs, but as it says in the Wikipedia entry: > The first instance of a collaborative real-time editor was demonstrated by Douglas Engelbart in 1968, in The Mother of All Demos. Widely available implementations of the concept took decades to appear. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_real-time_editor#History_of_key_products https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_real-time_editor... There are a lot of these protocol/API tools like gRPC, Thrift, Swagger/OpenAPI, or even good old ASN.1, eh? To me the question is how to drive convergence? How to alleviate https://xkcd.com/927/ https://xkcd.com/927/ ? (The "Standards" comic.) Who shall forge the "one true ring to bind them"? - - - - Also, I think Data Model catalogs (like "Data Model Patterns: A Metadata Map" by David C. Hay) should be part of the answer. Instead of rolling your own data models you should be able to just pull models from a standard catalog. - - - - In sum, if we're lucky, we'll start to get convergence in the protocol and model space. Anything that isn't working towards convergence is just adding another log to the burning pile of standards, eh?