> IEFT spec drafts are public and they're audited (as SPDY has been). > Also, most of the specs that we love and rely on today came from "big vendors", its nice

> IEFT spec drafts are public and they're audited (as SPDY has been). > Also, most of the specs that we love and rely on today came from "big vendors", its nice and all to say you want the little guy to be a part (and they should be) but it takes quite a bit of man power to develop, draft and finally get ratified a spec. It's especially hard when the call for proposals period of the draft is about 4 months and there happens to be a ready made proposal from a big player at the ready to be agreed on almost immediately. It's nice to say the little guy should be a part, but in this case the little guy mostly heard about it long after it happened.