[DannyBee]

Believe it or not, Chromium/etc (the ones we are referring to here) are open source project with a lot of Google committers, not a Google project that accepts things or not depending on whims.

In fact, the project has a ton of non-google non-drive-by committers (250+ IIRC, it's been a while since i looked ).

[wtallis]

Is that even the relevant authority to be considering? Since QUIC is not formally specified yet and only exists as a de facto standard with little historical stability so far, isn't it primarily defined by the most prevalent implementations—Google's official client and servers—not the current state of the project's version control repository?

I do admit that things aren't as cut-and-dry for protocols and specifications than for actual implementations where rights and ownership are pretty clearly defined, but surely you can see that there is a distinction that can be drawn here? QUIC is expected to become an open standard (or die), but it's not there yet. Though it may be further along on the "open" than "standard" aspect.