Can a nip be a protocol?

I think it precisely fulfils the definition https://m.primal.net/HbXG.png

Lightning is a clusterfuck of APIs that developers have very little time to understand. NWC is an effort to hide all of that from regular application developers that have more to do than to worry about specifics of each lightning provider. That alone should be enough to name it a protocol.

Nwc is definitely a protocol