[mikedelfino]

This is something I often think about — if I understood you correctly. It sounds like an evolution of Gopher, with predefined structures for navigation, documents, and media. When we browse, we care more about the content than the presentation. There’s no real need for different layouts for blogs, documentation, news, forums, CRUD apps, streamings, emails, shops, banking, and so on. If the scope were tightly restricted, implementing clients and servers would be much simpler. But it's just something I wonder about...

[bobajeff]

Yeah, that's right. Though, it needs not be just one protocol. Many sites already have clients. It's just that the APIs are typically controlled by the site and are not client neutral and require credentials as opposed to something like an RSS feed.