Thanks a lot for all your responses so far! I'll summarize later.
On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 9:33 PM, Michael Rasmussen mir@datanom.net wrote:
And this is question #3: who's willing to help us draft the perfect protocol for this? I guess this should be a highly collaborative and iterative process and I'm keen on any input from people who are experienced with this type of task.
Depends on chosen language.
One remark to this, though: the goal of creating a proper protocol is to make independent of the technologies used on each side. Of course we have Javascript on one and and thus not relying too much on binary data streams might be a good idea but the designed protocol should primarily fit the purpose of the application and not the language.
Cheers, Thomas