Hi Niepodam,
On March 30, 2026, we published IOTMP as an active Internet-Draft at the IETF.
IOTMP is the binary communication protocol that has been the backbone of Thinger.io for nearly a decade. It is not a new idea. It has spent years handling real telemetry, remote control, firmware updates, streaming, and interactive operations across all kinds of deployments — using PSON as its compact binary payload format.
What is new is that we are now formalizing it, documenting it, and opening it to the world:

Over the years, IoT systems have evolved around multiple specialized protocols: MQTT for pub/sub, CoAP for constrained devices, HTTP for REST APIs, plus countless custom integration layers connecting everything together.
IOTMP was designed to reduce that fragmentation through a single persistent, bidirectional, resource-oriented communication channel capable of handling:
• Real-time telemetry
• Remote command execution
• API introspection
• File transfers and OTA updates
• Remote terminals and TCP proxy tunnels
All over one connection.
We have now published a detailed technical article explaining how IOTMP works, how it compares to MQTT, CoAP, and HTTP, and why we believe it can become an open IoT communication standard.
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