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Comment by r1ch | Hacker News Reader

Between Google's browser market share and Cloudflare's internet dominance, I'm getting quite worried about the speed at which large changes like this are occurring. Google rolls out an experimental feature with no standardization in Chrome and here it's already supported by Cloudflare and in the wild.

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> experimental feature with no standardization

Web Packaging was originally proposed in 2015 as a W3C draft (https://www.w3.org/TR/2015/WD-web-packaging-20150115/) and the Signed Exchanges spec as an IETF specification (https://wicg.github.io/webpackage/draft-yasskin-http-origin-...)

There is also an open source project implementing it that anyone can use (https://github.com/ampproject/amppackager).

Web Packaging in the W3C draft was a completely different idea - there's not even a single mention of signatures. The "specification" you linked is actually a standards draft published by Google. And the open source project is again, another Google project that only benefits their AMP ecosystem.

These are currently drafts and are evolving with feedback, but Google is working with standards bodies and feedback from the web community.

...and what r1ch says

> Google rolls out an experimental feature with no standardization in Chrome and here it's already supported by Cloudflare and in the wild.

still remains a valid argument to what you just stated.

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