Joe Gregorio has posted an RFC for a (not)echo-based API. It is a streamlined, simple (yet extensible) REST-based API. It is beautiful. It is good.
I’m sure that little things will change while the format matures, but if the API looks as simple, clean, and useful as this, I’d endorse it 100%. I hope that such a simple yet robust system can work for all involved.
Think technical, not political.