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I've just read Borland's Pawel Glowacki blog about beginnings of AJAX standarization.

On April 5th W3C published a working draft about XMLHttpRequest Object, the core of AJAX technology:

Abstract

This specification defines the XMLHttpRequest object, an API that provides some HTTP client functionality.

1. Introduction

This section is informative

The XMLHttpRequest object is an interface exposed by a scripting engine that allows scripts to perform HTTP client functionality, such as submitting form data or loading data from a remove Web site.

The XMLHttpRequest object is implemented today, in some form, by many popular Web browsers. Unfortunately the implementations are not completely interoperable. The goal of this specification is to document a minimum set of interoperable features based on existing implementations, allowing Web developers to use these features without platform-specific code. In order to do this, only features that are already implemented are considered. In the case where there is a feature with no interoperable implementations, the authors have specified what they believe to be the most correct behavior.

Future versions of this specification (as opposed to future drafts of this version) may add new features, after careful examination from browser developers and Web content developers.

This specification was originally derived from the WHAT WG's Web Applications 1.0 document. The authors acknowledge the work of the WHAT WG in documenting existing behavior.

So, AJAX is here to stay? Interesting stuff.