This excerpt is from a blog quoting Ami Vora of Facebook....

Decades ago, Bob Kahn, one of the true "fathers" of the Internet because he was running the Darpa program that paid for all the research, told me that the future was about all about standards. How right Bob was -- and how true that observation continues to be today. When so many applications developers are tiny teams it seems to make sense that they have to prioritize their work and make a bet on one set of standards or another. And so the "most open" standard wins--as it always has.