Apparently this announcement came out yesterday but I have not heard anything about it until today.
tl;dr version: Blizzard addresses the community's desire to open up "vanilla" servers. In addition they go into detail about having to protect their intellectual property and possible methods (as well as complications) with opening these new servers. They even reached out to the devs that ran Nostalrius and have been communicating with them.
Read the official announcement here
tl;dr version: Blizzard addresses the community's desire to open up "vanilla" servers. In addition they go into detail about having to protect their intellectual property and possible methods (as well as complications) with opening these new servers. They even reached out to the devs that ran Nostalrius and have been communicating with them.
Read the official announcement here