Keyrings file format

[Robert J. Hansen]

Werner Koch wrote:
> And actually this future is not that far away.  For various reasons
> (e.g. meta data) we will for sure see a different format used this year.

Is there any possibility of the new GnuPG keyring format being something
easier to parse?  Not necessarily XML (although I think that would be a
good idea), but something less opaque than it currently is?