I like that once again the approach of "build it and deploy something on it" seems to work more effectively than "specify it over a five-year intensive period".
I imagine that's just my inner lazy engineer talking, though; there are some protocols that would definitely have been better off specified properly from the start (I'm looking at you, SMB)
The link above is to a version being specified, not yet deployed. (v3).
Its fair to say that v2 is deployed and was well documented and that google was very responsive to technical inquiries about it. The firefox and chrome implementations are v2.
But open specification is important. Google and Mozilla have been working together to bring this into the IETF.
I imagine that's just my inner lazy engineer talking, though; there are some protocols that would definitely have been better off specified properly from the start (I'm looking at you, SMB)