fair point, erkose. But why didn't the JSON-ified successor to BEEP come about? As someone who has spent the last 15 years basically trying to plumb bandwidth

fair point, erkose. But why didn't the JSON-ified successor to BEEP come about? As someone who has spent the last 15 years basically trying to plumb bandwidth aware/adaptive chatty AND bulk-data-transfer applications, I always look at the RFC's and see a ton of good ideas. No fan of XML... but that's a personal bias.