[sandeepkd]

I get a mixed feeling about all this. Cloudflare is unilaterally making all these decisions which impact the whole internet traffic flow. Taking the lead is one thing, however decisions like this should have the direct involvement of Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to account for all stakeholders, otherwise we run into the situation of a fragmented internet

[colechristensen]

Are they unilateral? Maybe the defaults? For anyone competent they're settings freely chosen.

[usef-]

I'm curious if this is just to pressure Google into separating their crawlers

[sandeepkd]

This is more of a way to create a unauthorized toll tax on highway. There is a problem indeed, however if the proposed direction by cloud flare is to solve it or benefit out of it is a debatable topic.

[inigyou]

That wouldn't make any sense from anyone's perspective. They would just pretend to separate them and not.