1. A method for configuring a first computing device to send or receive formatted data, the formatted data including a plurality of formatting tags, the method comprising: receiving via a network an indication of a set of formatting tags recognized by a second computing device; determining a first mapping, the first mapping comprising a mapping of identifiers to formatting tags in the set of formatting tags; configuring at least one of an encoder, a decoder, and a parser of the first computing device with the first mapping.