HTTP/2 Considerations and Tradeoffs

I find the arguments against encrypted-by-default HTTP2 based on regulatory issues of prisons and amateur radio rather silly. I'm an amateur radio operator myself and the idea that internet standards should be crippled to support a niche use case like packet radio offensive. People will still use packet radio, either by publishing all their session keys somewhere, or just using a translator between encrypted and non-encrypted at the gateway, before the RF connection.

As for prisons, do we really want to restrict the rights of free people to the rights of prisoners? This seems like 100% the responsibility of the prison itself, and I'm sure different prisons will adopt different policies.

Put enough cooks in the kitchen and soon you'll have each of them list a long list of complaints about the broth.

Committees only work to codify existing de-facto standards as official standards.

Look at any of the big standards we're using and you'll discover their origins are often a small team or even a single person.

It's funny that SPDY was considered a good thing for the most part, until it tried to become a standard, and everyone had their chance to complain about it.