Is Microsoft Challenging Google on HTTP 2.0 with WebSocket?

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Back in 2009, Google began an industry discussion about a prospective upgrade to HTTP protocol - the application that enables the Web over the Internet. The concept is called SPDY, and to date, conventional wisdom held that while some are skeptical of Google's motives, as a concept, SPDY was running unopposed. Maybe not any more. This week…

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"Encryption must be optional to allow HTTP 2.0 to meet certain scenarios and regulations."

Wait - regulations? They're not saying what I think they're saying, are they? Do they mean they should build it in such a way that is wiretappable by the NSA? I know they've made similar statements about Skype's new architecture.

Also, I disagree that encryption shouldn't be mandatory. At this point it should be. I understand it will cause some bumps in the road, but the sooner we can get from a small percentage of the web traffic being encrypted, to close to 100 percent, the better. If that means enforcing something like this Steve Jobs-style, so be it.

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