Isn’t this sort of a continuation/improvement on the ancient single-purpose protocols and commands like `finger` or `ident` etc. but consolidated into a single

Isn’t this sort of a continuation/improvement on the ancient single-purpose protocols and commands like `finger` or `ident` etc. but consolidated into a single port/command? Maybe we could formalize this into a new protocol? Send some text, get some text back, with minimal overhead. Let’s call it “ask” or “q” (for query)