Fro-the infinite world of protocol designs-yet-to-be, "Seventh Heaven" focu
ses on an IETF Birds-of-a-Feather proposal for an Application Cork (ApplCor
e) protocol. ApplCore would identify common problems encountered in applica
tion-level protocol development and then design one simple core protocol to
solve these problems based on the successes and failures of already deploy
ed:IETF protocols-in effect, an application-layer TCP.