WebTransport wasn’t designed or “declared” by Google. It came through the IETF. I’m not sure who wrote the initial draft, but the WG chairs are at Google and Microsoft, and the current draft has authors from Apple and Facebook.[1]
I was there in the early BoF sessions for webtransport in Montreal / Singapore. We had dozens of people from all over the tech landscape chiming in and contributing.
The IETF is an open, participatory community. Claiming its run by Google is completely wrong, and honestly pretty demeaning to the work people put in to design specs.
If you want more independent voices at IETF, instead of inventing false claims to whinge about on HN, why don’t you be part of the solution and get involved? The mailing list for Webtransport is just a Google search away. Here it is now.[2]
[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-webtrans-http3/