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I think TLS/SSL is the elephant in the room here. A large part of the web is effectively already using binary protocol (HTTPS), and frankly I'd wish the part was even bigger.

Think of HTTP 2.0 as a successor for HTTPS instead of HTTP if it makes you feel better.

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Wrong. An encrypted text session is different from a purely for binary session (encrypted or not). The former can be mangled from text by a generic encryption proxy, the latter needs a protocol-specific analyser.

I don't get it. Why does it matter if your tool just decrypts SSL or you use a tool that decrypts SSL and additionally unpacks the binary representation of HTTP 2.0?

The output is exactly the same - plain old HTTP.

The point is that HTTP may not be the be-all end-all protocol that we will ever want to use on the open web, and encouraging any potential new protocols to take HTTP's lead and use an arbitrary binary encoding that requires protocol-specific tools to make sense of, is maybe not a decision we should take lightly.

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