Mark Nottingham / is on Nostr

Co-chair IETF HTTP Working Group, W3C Board of Directors, standards lead at Cloudflare. Former W3C TAG and Internet Architecture Board. Interested in the intersection of legal regulation and technical standards.

Web: https://www.mnot.net/
Town: Prahran, Australia
Land: Wurundjeri
Pronouns: He/him/mate

Last Notes

2024-08-11 03:08:33

Just wondering: has a country ever denied accusations of ethic cleansing and then later been found to be innocent?

2024-08-03 02:51:35

How do internet standards work? What role do the have in internet governance? I’m writing about these topics and more in a series of posts - feedback much appreciated!
https://www.mnot.net/blog/series/internet-standards/

2024-07-21 21:44:04

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orchard asks: where are you these days?
https://techpolicy.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/826/190/366/364/274/original/e9f217d5cafb0eea.jpeg

2024-07-21 20:18:58

@npub19ua…53cv you not coming to ietf this week?

2024-05-24 10:19:59

It’s common for voluntary technical standards developing organisations (SDOs such as the IETF and W3C) to make decisions by consensus, rather than (for example) voting. This post explores why we use consensus, what it is, how it works in Internet standards and when its use can become problematic.
https://www.mnot.net/blog/2024/05/24/consensus

2024-05-18 02:28:27

The thing is, if you asked ANYONE outside Australia ‘who is Gina Rinehart’ last week, you would have got a blank stare. This portrait is now how she will be known and remembered.

2024-05-10 09:31:27

I say this with the deepest consideration -- fuck StackOverflow.

2024-05-07 23:00:32

And this is their _earnings call_.
"I think the central risk to Palantir, America and the world is a regressive way of thinking that is corrupting and corroding our institutions that calls itself progressive, but actually — and is called woke — but is actually a form of a thin pagan religion,"