This is a #lisp machine for network protocols. Initially in pursuit of a social forum focused on link sharing.
as #startups and free projects alike rush to implement some #IETF RFC adding only 'but on the web'. I aim to define a modular protocol server which can support an arbitrary number of network protocols as a network daemon. Our POC in this endeavour will be to build an #NNTP -like protocol daemon which gateways to #IPFS storage. The content held in this system can be consumed by arbitrary clients; a web application presenting #reddit -like services would be just one of many potential clients, although it is likely that Gnus for Emacs will be the first one. https://codeberg.org/fade/callisto
Reminder: travel grant applications due by May 10, 2024
We're pleased to offer a number of Diversity Travel Grants to support early-career academics and PhD students from under-represented groups to attend the Applied Networking Research Workshop (ANRW'24) and IRTF meetings co-located with the #IETF 120 Meeting in Vancouver, Canada, in July 2024. https://www.irtf.org/travelgrants/
I do appreciate how, when writing #IETF drafts using the markdown template and GitHub, every writing session starts with spending 30 minutes debugging Python and Ruby build issues – this always make me feel more productive
domain names cost too much, literally the fakest economy in existence. Yhey just need to cover the funding of ICANN and the IETF which should be no more than 50 furrys (network engineers) and 10 old guys on a board (they work for free they like it).
Hot on the heels of a post I wrote 4 years ago, wouldn't it be useful to have a well-known URl for user avatar images? When I sign up to a web service, I don't want to faff around uploading an image to use as my avatar. I want that service to look at my […]
Going through some of my old photos. I found the photo where we discussed on May 18, 2004 in New-York (20 years ago), where should be developed the Atom feed format: #W3C or #IETF.
Next session of the #IETF e-impact group for decreasing "#environmental impact" of networking technologies is meeting up 15-16. February! It's online & open to all; we will talk about protocols & #sustainability, drafts & carbon-aware routing ... and all the topics that you might bring, such as #DeGrowth, #permacomputing, planetary #limits, #ClimateJustice...
Interesting proposal for a top-level domain (TLD) that you could use internally on your LAN that will never be available out on the public Internet. So you could give your servers names ending in “.internal” and those addresses would not conflict with public addresses.
If you use #GnuPG#GPG, and you would like to ensure interoperability with Thunderbird, you might consider to disable the use of #LibrePGP features, by using option --rfc4880 in your configuration (e.g. by adding a line with the word "rfc4880" to your gpg.conf file.)
At this time it is undecided whether future Thunderbird versions will support LibrePGP or the upcoming refresh of the #IETF#OpenPGP specification, or both, or none of them. Hopefully we'll eventually see a new universal standard.
I also wrote about my one disagreement with Russ where he advocates for writing drafts in XML, but I have become a strong advocate for using Markdown in most cases.
Today I gave myself the gift of uninstalling Threema for Christmas. Threema is still one of the better messengers out there. And I'm very glad that I was able to switch from WhatsApp to Threema about 10 years ago. Since then, however, the world has moved on. I now only chat via the #IETF standard #XMPP. Preferably with my own #Snikket_im server.
#IETF RFC 9518 Centralization, Decentralization, and Internet Standards
> "The extreme flexibility of #SOAP and its failure to provide significant standalone value allowed vendors to require use of their preferred extensions, favoring those who had more market power. Therefore, standards efforts should focus on providing concrete utility to the majority of their users as published, rather than being a "framework" where interoperability is not immediately available."
The project leader of #gnupg has announced a fork of the #openpgp standard, justifying it with a list of accusations against the #IETF working group that fall apart under scrutiny. #pgp is being threatened with destruction over a personal grievance. We strongly urge de-escalation.