Designing socket messaging format

[Paul Rubin]

Manoj Plakal <terabaap at yumpee.org> writes:
>              I'm not trying to reinvent a new network
>              protocol here. All I'm asking is if there's
>              some kind of cross-platform ultra-lightweight
>              COM/CORBA-kind of messaging system, built on top
>              of some IPC mechanism (UDP or domain sockets or named
>              pipes or something not too heavy).

Did Pyro already come up in this discussion?  http://pyro.sourceforge.net.