Are we going to transfer hypertext? No? Then use data://google.com and define a protocol for GET PUT POST AND DELETE data over the wire using standard data formats(how about INSERT, SELECT, UPDATE and DELETE?).
The index page will give you all the discoverability and from there you can go to google.com/employees or bestbuy.com/products etc showing whatever data is public (or private provided oauth mechanisms) and what can be created,modified and deleted according to roles and security levels.
This has been tried before but the well was poisoned when they dropped SOAP in it.
I certainly hope so; linked data (of which RDF is the main implementation nowadays) is much more useful than having disconnected silos. Of course, we won't transfer HTML, but that's just one implementation of hypertext.
Besides, even if we weren't, why would we replace HTTP by something that accomplishes the same? Doesn't make much sense to me.
The index page will give you all the discoverability and from there you can go to google.com/employees or bestbuy.com/products etc showing whatever data is public (or private provided oauth mechanisms) and what can be created,modified and deleted according to roles and security levels.
This has been tried before but the well was poisoned when they dropped SOAP in it.