> IEFT [sic] spec drafts are public and they're audited (as SPDY has been).

Absolutely. But there's more than one kind of control. I don't think enough programmers understand the effects of social control. If the standards are all public and audited, but only employees of Apple, Google, and Microsoft have the time and energy to keep up with discussions, well...

And, of course, I'm not imply that _only_ that is true, I just fear that big organizations are dominating the discussion. I have more free time than the vast majority of programmers, are subscribed to the HTTP 2.0 mailing list, and find it hard to keep up.