I still feel like this is just being rammed through far far too fast. SPDY might well be the right way to go, but it's only been deployed for a small number of

I still feel like this is just being rammed through far far too fast. SPDY might well be the right way to go, but it's only been deployed for a small number of very large sites for a couple of years at this point. It was a foregone conclusion when the schedule was announced for http2.0 that it would be spdy, because only spdy has demonstrable value in production. There was no time for anyone to come up with or evaluate an alternative. But on the other hand, there hasn't been near enough time to demonstrate that spdy is good for the whole internet, which is what blessing it with the http protocol name implies. And I just don't see why it should be rammed through. SPDY has a connection upgrade path, that afaik is largely unchanged for http2.0 anyways.