The most recent version of the @defer spec proposal specifies support for an incremental field in the payload that delivers the incremental data result that is returned from the multipart response:

incremental: A list of objects containing the data that is being delivered incrementally. Contains a data field for data from a @defer, or an items field for list items from a @stream. The path of this data is determined by concatenating the path from the associated pending object with the optional subPath field.

The apollo implementation supports this already. I would like to see this supported in this library as well.