intertwingly

After perusing the IETF's Working Group Guidelines and Procedures, I went perusing the web for charters to 'crib' from.  I came across SIMPLE and XMPP.  These are not just interesting from a potential future IETF bretheren point of view, but also from a basic syndication and API point of view.  In particular, such protocols can avoid the scalability problems associated with a polling based architecture and can potentially navigate through gateways, firewalls and routers.

Authentication is the one area where I expect things to be different, but the uniform layout of the feed and entries are something that I don't expect to vary based on the transfer mechanism.