Enmasse toss us a bone put this in already
As much as I'd love everyone to get what they want... (Oh my... isn't that a pve-carebear statement I keep seeing thrown around here?) I don't think this idea of a "hardcore" pvp server will work.
Without any form of safety, there will be no progress. If you die and lose exp, to the point of de-leveling, you won't progress. Even if killing someone awards exp... over all people will lose exp. There won't be any "End-game pvp."
If items drop from dying, then either all your hard work to obtian them will be wasted, or you won't bother to obtian "the better items" and pvp will become a few split seconds of spamming abilities and hoping your crappy whites will keep you alive long enough to kill someone else. The TTK will drop horribly.
So I hope they implement the "hardcore" pvp server for you all, I really do. Unfortunately, I also think it will be merged back into the pvp-servers when you discover very few of the "hardcores" are actually, truely hardcore. Then... it will just be a waste of developer time.
(And there really are only two kinds of servers. PvE and PvP. An rp server just has a sign over it so Rp'ers know where to go. If you want your own "server like they've got..." it would really just be a server with a sign over it saying "Hardcore Pvper's... here.")