So what, the governance is not open and what good is a perfectly written engineering spec without the actual place where people hang out? It’s just a lot of tech jargon masking yet-another “let’s make someone very rich” scheme.

They’re actually making first steps to bring it to IETF: https://docs.bsky.app/blog/taking-at-to-ietf

You can be as cynical as you like but I actually tried hard to avoid tech jargon in the article. I’d appreciate you giving it a read — happy to answer questions or discuss specific concerns.