Motivation

Project should provide universal protocol as a more feature-rich alternative to currently used binary protocols. It should provide general methods for handling various types of data including:

Multimedia files - Audio, Video, Animation
Filesystem structure - Allow to represent data in the form of filesystem or as compressed archive
Application API - Remote or local methods execution supporting parameters and result passing
Serialization protocol - Provide ability to serialize structured data
Long-term data storage - Provide way to define data with separate or integrated specification
Huge data - Use dynamic numeric values to allow support for data in terabytes range or more
Representation of segmented, fragmented or indexed data

The protocol is also intended to bring advantages of modern markup languages like XML into binary world. It's a ground-up designed alternative focused on binary data, yet providing similar techniques like XML Schema, XML Namespaces, XSLT and so on.

Where applicable, project should also include concepts from other similar protocols, like for example:

RIFF - Resource Interchange File Format
HDF5/CDF - Hierarchical Data Format / Common Data Format
ASN.1 - Abstract Syntax Notation One
Matroska/EBML - Extensible Binary Meta Language
Protocol Buffers - Serialization protocol for binary data exchange

You can learn more about this project by reading following sections:

XBUP - Extensible Binary Universal Protocol

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