Metadata format for application-layer specifications

[cwgoes]

Includes

• Packet data .proto
• Versioning semantics
• Link to spec
• etc. etc.

Suggestions welcome.

[mpoke]

@cwgoes Is this issue still relevant?

[cwgoes]

I think so, although there aren't yet enough application-level standards to know exactly what should be standardised. In my view, application-level standards should include enough in the specification that implementors can support them completely without consulting any implementation - so this means .proto files, for example.