I said that the idea came from CABForum because that's what Langley said. Moving from 250k to 2.3M still wouldn't put your blog in the lifeboat. Also: the CRL entries in the CRLsets are manually curated; someone is doing that work for you, for free.
And I understood correctly about who chose the "size of the lifeboat", also because of what Langley said.
The person upthread unhappy that Chrome didn't pick up their revocation (einhverfr) isn't worried about a measly blog, but their SaaS business.
If 2.3MB isn't enough to protect everybody, make it 23MB or take whatever other design steps are necessary. The world's most popular browser, from the world's most profitable internet company, in 2014 shouldn't be showing the lock-icon and "valid certificate" hours/days/weeks after a publicly-available revocation.
"Manual curation", rather than being impressive, is a design-smell here. And none of Google's work to outcompete other browsers, using proprietary Chrome features, is being done for me "for free".
