Ask HN: Why did the BEEP protocol never get much traction?

2 points by mohaps ↗ HN
I've always wondered why the BEEP protocol never did get much traction. It seems like a very well thought out specification (RFC-3080 / RFC-3081)

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Because JSON won.
fair point, erkose. But why didn't the JSON-ified successor to BEEP come about?

As someone who has spent the last 15 years basically trying to plumb bandwidth aware/adaptive chatty AND bulk-data-transfer applications, I always look at the RFC's and see a ton of good ideas.

No fan of XML... but that's a personal bias.