Whoever decides to write this API, please don't do it in SOAP. Seriously, though, that would be the issue with anything that tries to standardize something so

Whoever decides to write this API, please don't do it in SOAP. Seriously, though, that would be the issue with anything that tries to standardize something so broad--eventually, factions would form and it would self destruct. It would be fun in the mean time, though.