Stable wire protocol support

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Teams need access to non-C libraries to develop modern software. Based on conversations from the RDK Summit the protocol has been intentionally undocumented to prevent any other library offering support for the protocol.

That doesn't work for many modern languages that either cannot, or should not include c code.

We need a formal wire protocol definition so that the community can maintain the libraries and infrastructure needed.

Why does providing multiple language bindings not work?

Multiple language bindings are often based on a single .so library that is wrapped with glue code, but requires the external dependency. This causes problems for languages like go that need to be independent of .so files for portability reasons.