When @_unwriter launched Bitcom, it was a big inspiration for many people who had good ideas, but didn't publish or implement them publicly because of the need for a kind of 'social consensus' around protocol development. Thanks to the simple concept of using addresses as protocol prefixes we began to see new protocols emerge almost immediately. Since lots of "micro protocols" are being developed for various purposes, it makes sense that we should try and use them together instead of constantly reinventing the wheel. After some intense discussion in the Atlantis slack channel,

@_unwriter wrote up a proposal