standarddel

StandardDel is a proposed open standard for reliable, interoperable data delivery in distributed systems. It defines a protocol-agnostic envelope and a collection of delivery semantics that can be implemented atop existing transports such as TCP, UDP, or message buses. The goal is to enable predictable delivery characteristics across heterogeneous components and networks.

Core concepts of StandardDel include a data envelope that carries payload metadata, a monotonically increasing sequence number, and optional delivery assurances. Implementations may support at-most-once, at-least-once, or exactly-once semantics, with acknowledgments and retransmission strategies to recover from loss. The standard also defines backpressure mechanics to manage flow and maintain stability under load.

Technically, StandardDel is designed to be transport-agnostic. It specifies session establishment, channel negotiation, and a lightweight framing format for payloads. It supports both text and binary data and offers optional compression and encryption. Interoperability is achieved through a common set of metadata fields, including message type, schema reference, and trace identifiers for observability.

Status and governance: StandardDel is maintained as an informational draft by the Standards Collective. It has not achieved formal ratification in major standards bodies, and implementations are largely experimental or academic. The draft encourages reference implementations and conformance tests to aid evaluation and comparison with existing messaging or streaming protocols.

Use cases include microservice communication, event streaming, distributed caching, and edge computing scenarios that require predictable delivery guarantees. In practice, StandardDel aims to complement existing protocols by providing a uniform delivery model that can be layered over diverse transport and messaging substrates.