AMQP

"Toward a Commodity Enterprise Middleware"
John O'Hara
ACM Queue vol. 5, no. 4, 2007

AMQP is a new communication protocol for message queueing.

I'm not sure if AMQP will be widely accepted or not, but I think it's important that AMQP was developed driven by needs of front line engineers not as a research project.

You can find an article on AMQP in English and in Japanse in InfoQ.