I'm aware that he's always been skeptical, I saw his posts as my own excitement over the idea of HTTP/2.0 died on the vine from being subscribed to the WG maili

I'm aware that he's always been skeptical, I saw his posts as my own excitement over the idea of HTTP/2.0 died on the vine from being subscribed to the WG mailing list. There has never and will never be a point in time where we don't need "a better protocol for the web now." The issue is that canonization was unnecessary, adoption of spdy has been progressing fine without it. And HTTP/2 diverging significantly from spdy does not inspire confidence, either. Rather it just reminds of a famous xkcd [1]and again begs the question of whether trying to turn spdy into http/2 even manages to achieve any of the goals the process was setting out for. The whole thing just seems like a big fat SNAFU. [1] http://xkcd.com/927/ http://xkcd.com/927/