First of all, SPDY is a properly documented protocol -- there are far more "open" protocols that are documented far worse. It's inside Google's interests to mak

First of all, SPDY is a properly documented protocol -- there are far more "open" protocols that are documented far worse. It's inside Google's interests to make SPDY adoption as widespread as possible, so it makes sense they would properly document it. The other part of your argument is based on the fact that it's a binary protocol which makes it less intuitive and impossible/hard to debug when something goes wrong. This is indeed a trade-off chosen by SPDY that makes sense for a lot of the use cases: you're optimizing the protocol for computer, not for humans. You'll need additional debugging tools to find out what's wrong in exchange for better performance.