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Protocol Buffers

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Protocol Buffers (protobuf) are an Interface Description Language used to describe messages and operations. Some of its features:

Allows to extend and modify the schemes, keeping backwards compatibility.
It’s a canonic format.
The data presentation has an explicit structure.
Can be used in a lot of programming languages.
Efficient serialization in binary format
The messages are concatenated in the same order as defined in the .proto file.

Encoding

Or if you don't know what a response is, you can always write a webmention comment (you don't need to know what that is).