Ok maybe
"Bluesky controls the AT Protocol right now, and Graber is keenly aware that isn’t tenable if it’s going to be something lots of other companies build on over time. She says the plan is to eventually hand over control to a web standards body like the Internet Engineering Task Force. "
https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/6/24062837/bluesky-drops-invite-system-begins-federation-at-protocol
Thinking about it this is possibly worse
Enshrining atproto as a standard would help drive out competing protocols
The issues surrounding decentralization are highly political and it's not clear that the IETF are equipped to handle it
This would create an opportunity/vulnerability
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