#bradfield
The push to share data on [[Protocols]], and not platforms, is gathering steam on the Web. For years now, both consumers and creators of numerous web systems have bemoaned the lack of interoperability of a single user’s data between systems. It is these silos that people have been attempting to bridge or bring down since time immemorial (or at least since attempts to section off swaths of the Web became commonplace). What has gone unchallenged in this discourse is the siloing of data between applications on our local machines.
This document proposes an open protocol for sharing data between applications in order to make our local computing more responsive and adaptable to our changing conditions. This document also proposes bringing the well-regarded and explored concept of the Unix [[pipe]] to GUI