I don't really see "is it beneficial in the long run" and "is it an aggressive standardization campaign by one interested party" as being the same question.

At any rate I also didn't say they shouldn't experiment with using it as an accelerated path for http. I didn't think they shouldn't with spdy either. But historically RFCs were built on practice, not the other way around.

If I were the Internet Dictator, I'd be a big fan of standardizing the semantics of http separate from the physical transport and then defining best practices for using alternative transports in the wild, and then eventually standardizing what comes out of that process.

To me it's an indictment of how all this shook out that we're so quickly looking to replace http/2. I think moving to quic is a good move but maybe we didn't need an official http/2 standard in the meantime.