Final call - travel grant applications to attend IRTF events co-locating with #IETF 118 in Prague, 4-10 November, are due tomorrow! https://irtf.org/travelgrants

Anyway, that's a roundabout way of saying that I'm in the midst of picking an internal TLD scheme for my VPN, and I've decided the ISO3166 User Assigned Code Elements* should be and are fair game. (Alongside .home.arpa, which you can thank the #IETF for.)

* AA, QM to QZ, XA to XZ, and ZZ (but avoid XN)

#ICANN can suck it.

The air quality during the #IETF sessions was surprisingly good in the conference rooms (CO2 levels near outdoor levels), so I'm guessing I picked up #Covid either during a meal, at the social, maybe on the streets outside, or due to air exchange from an adjacent hotel room. (In retrospect there are some signs the hotel room next to mine sharing an air shaft might have had people quarantining. Next time I'm bringing a portable air purifier for my room.)

#Covid is not over. My first work travel since the beforetimes was to #IETF in San Francisco a few weeks ago. Despite masking on the flight and during sessions, I ended up testing positive on Friday morning. My first time ever getting Covid! I got to spend the next week quarantining in the hotel, thankfully with only relatively mild symptoms. I'd gotten all the vaccines I was eligible for but the last dose was almost a year ago. I had symptom rebound, so got to mask at home for another week.

#IETF gives nice treats to crypto-nerds ;)

#RFC 9380: Hashing to Elliptic Curves
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9380.html#CFADLNV05

@g3rv4 Have you tried changing gai.conf to increase the priority of #IPv6 #ULA? This has some discussion of the issues: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-v6ops-ula-00. The #v6ops mailing list in the #IETF is discussing changing the recommend defaults.

Anyone here happens to be at #ietf ? I have some questions regarding the process of pushing a draft into upstream :-)

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* #HauntedMansion #GhostPost Panel Live From #MidsummerScream
https://dizneycoasttocoast.libsyn.com/haunted-mansion-ghost-post-panel-live-from-midsummer-scream-disney-podcast-episode-1027

* how big tech makes the internet worse (What's Gonna Happen)
https://www.stitcher.com/show/what-s-gonna-happen/episode/how-big-tech-makes-the-internet-worse-with-cory-doctorow-305645071

* Let The Platforms Burn: Bringing Back the Good Fire of the Old Internet (#IETF 117)
https://youtu.be/nK7JoGhF338?t=737

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Recent appearances:

* #HauntedMansion #GhostPost Panel Live From #MidsummerScream
https://dizneycoasttocoast.libsyn.com/haunted-mansion-ghost-post-panel-live-from-midsummer-scream-disney-podcast-episode-1027

* how big tech makes the internet worse (What's Gonna Happen)
https://www.stitcher.com/show/what-s-gonna-happen/episode/how-big-tech-makes-the-internet-worse-with-cory-doctorow-305645071

* Let The Platforms Burn: Bringing Back the Good Fire of the Old Internet (#IETF 117)
https://youtu.be/nK7JoGhF338?t=737

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In working on the last few #IETF Drafts, found the GitHub workflow using markdown and GH actions to be absolutely *incredible*. It makes the process so much easier than before. This is an absolute game changer for anyone fumbling around trying to figure out the process. https://github.com/martinthomson/i-d-template

Is this an #IETF compliant setup for implementing an #RFC compliant #DNS server?

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* #HauntedMansion #GhostPost Panel Live From #MidsummerScream
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* how big tech makes the internet worse (What's Gonna Happen)
https://www.stitcher.com/show/what-s-gonna-happen/episode/how-big-tech-makes-the-internet-worse-with-cory-doctorow-305645071

* Let The Platforms Burn: Bringing Back the Good Fire of the Old Internet (#IETF 117)
https://youtu.be/nK7JoGhF338?t=737

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Recent appearances:

* #HauntedMansion #GhostPost Panel Live From #MidsummerScream
https://dizneycoasttocoast.libsyn.com/haunted-mansion-ghost-post-panel-live-from-midsummer-scream-disney-podcast-episode-1027

* how big tech makes the internet worse (What's Gonna Happen)
https://www.stitcher.com/show/what-s-gonna-happen/episode/how-big-tech-makes-the-internet-worse-with-cory-doctorow-305645071

* Let The Platforms Burn: Bringing Back the Good Fire of the Old Internet (#IETF 117)
https://youtu.be/nK7JoGhF338?t=737

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Recent appearances:

* #HauntedMansion #GhostPost Panel Live From #MidsummerScream
https://dizneycoasttocoast.libsyn.com/haunted-mansion-ghost-post-panel-live-from-midsummer-scream-disney-podcast-episode-1027

* how big tech makes the internet worse (What's Gonna Happen)
https://www.stitcher.com/show/what-s-gonna-happen/episode/how-big-tech-makes-the-internet-worse-with-cory-doctorow-305645071

* Let The Platforms Burn: Bringing Back the Good Fire of the Old Internet (#IETF 117)
https://youtu.be/nK7JoGhF338?t=737

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Do we have anyone in @ietf #IETF who can unblock @mullvadnet so that we can access their sites/documents? VPN is good for users, please stop blocking.

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* how big tech makes the internet worse (What's Gonna Happen)
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* Let The Platforms Burn: Bringing Back the Good Fire of the Old Internet (#IETF 117)
https://youtu.be/nK7JoGhF338?t=737

* Techdirt Podcast
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/07/25/techdirt-podcast-episode-359-red-team-blues-part-two-with-cory-doctorow/

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Recent appearances:

* how big tech makes the internet worse (What's Gonna Happen)
https://www.stitcher.com/show/what-s-gonna-happen/episode/how-big-tech-makes-the-internet-worse-with-cory-doctorow-305645071

* Let The Platforms Burn: Bringing Back the Good Fire of the Old Internet (#IETF 117)
https://youtu.be/nK7JoGhF338?t=737

* Techdirt Podcast
https://www.techdirt.com/2023/07/25/techdirt-podcast-episode-359-red-team-blues-part-two-with-cory-doctorow/

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@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

@privateger considering the prices of vendors like #Cisco that don't even follow #IEEE & #IETF nomenclature, I'd say that claim is rather applying to Cisco than the likes of Juniper, Sophos, Extreme Networks, HPE Aruba and IBM.

Also you can still buy the regular-ass cloudkey and stuff to manage a LAN.

And even if you ain't the client for a surveillance camera system, their on-prem solution is at least configureable to comply with BDSG & GDPR, which Amazon Ring can't and won't!

The final two IRTF sessions at #IETF 117 are in progress.

The Measurement & Analysis of Protocols RG has talks on Internet scale reverse traceroute; web privacy, cookies, and encrypted DNS; exploiting leaked Identifiers in IPv6; and the Measurement Lab. https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/117/materials/agenda-117-maprg-08

In parallel, the Privacy Enhancements & Assessments RG is discussing large language models, open source tests of web browser privacy, privacy implications of transient numeric identifiers, and France's recent proposals for DNS blocking in browsers https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/117/materials/agenda-117-pearg-02