This illustrates how workgroups and committees are vulnerable to lobbies and interest groups. Such entities have the resources to relentlessly put forward their

This illustrates how workgroups and committees are vulnerable to lobbies and interest groups. Such entities have the resources to relentlessly put forward their viewpoints and have them considered by the committees, while the majority standpoint, which I assume would be that people would not want third parties to be too easily able to snoop on their communications, is not being represented, or very little comparatively to their share of actual users. I hope the TLS WG will not bend under pressure, but I'm especially worried about the "pragmatic viewpoint", which sound awfully close to what the W3C said to justify themselves when they decided to standardize Encrypted Media Extensions into HTML5...