Let’s meet the chairpersons at the standards org “#IRTF” who are responsible for overseeing our decentralization & privacy needs are met in drafting #openStandards—

#DINRG (charter #decentraliztion group)

* Lixia Zhang: has a presence on twtr but not the fedi; her blog only works for gmail users

* Dirk Kutscher: has accounts on github & twtr but not the fedi; his Google Scholar‬ page pushes a 403 on Tor users

PEARG (charter #privacy group who uses github [https://github.com/IRTF-PEARG])

* Sara Dickinson: a pgp key would be nice but at least she is in the fedi; though sadly she has chosen a privacy-abusing Cloudflare node (#Fosstodon)

* Christopher A. Wood: a “Research Lead at #Cloudflare Research” ← WTF, are you fucking kidding me?! #hypocrisy!

Shivan Kaul Sahib: personal website (shivankaul·com) is in the privacy-abusing walled garden of Cloudflare. He asks for money via the ironically named “opentech·fund” (another CF site). Has a presence on twitter, github, linkedin, keybase; also has a bluesky account but hides it & downplays it.

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Dear @irtf,

Digital freedom fighters would like you to sack all of the above people except @sinodun. Plz replace them with people who can lead by example. Perhaps someone like aral@mastodon.ar.al, for example.

One of the chairpersons of #DINRG (#decentralization advocacy group for #IRTF), #LixiaZhang, has a Twitter account but no fedi presence. If that’s not enough irony, someone could only respond to her blog using #Gmail: https://lixiazhangucla.blogspot.com/2021/06/internet-centralization-how-we-got-from.html?showComment=1636615213315#c4435105350614548730 We badly need better leadership.

@irtf The irony is that IRTF uses privacy-abusing tech to send this meeting notice about web #privacy. Seriously?! The #hypocrisy is a bit rich considering #PEARG is an #IRTF branch that works on privacy & #DINRG is a #NetNeutrality branch of IRTF. How are these task forces not embarrassed? #Cloudflare #IETF