Dan York @danyork@mastodon.social

Know Someone Who Has Made the #Internet Better? Postel Service Award Nominations Deadline May 15 - http://www.circleid.com/posts/20190513_know_someone_who_has_made_the_internet_better/

"Web accessibility means that EVERYONE can use the Web." Chris DeMars ( @saltnburnem on Twitter)
at #uxb19

#a11y #accessibility

"The web is not a barrier to people with disabilities, it is the solution.." - quote from WebAim.org - displayed by Chris DeMars at #uxb19

#a11y #accessibility

Come join me and help expand our network of #WordPress-based sites! We're looking for a web developer with WordPress experience who can customize our sites & integrate them with various other systems and software. Seeking someone in US Eastern timezone- join us to keep Internet open and available to everyone! https://internetsociety.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=62

Wired: "#Coding Is for Everyone - as long as you speak English" - https://www.wired.com/story/coding-is-for-everyoneas-long-as-you-speak-english/

Ha! Amusing that the Pentagon's project to move to #cloud computing is called the joint enterprise defense infrastructure, or JEDI. (Perhaps predictably it seem to be a duel between Amazon's AWS and Microsoft's Azure - but which is the Empire and which is the Rebellion? Or are they really two different Empires?)- https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/10/technology/amazon-microsoft-jedi-pentagon.html

Mozilla announced their #DNS-over-HTTPS (#DOH) Policy Requirements for DOH servers that want to be listed as Trusted Recursive Resolvers (TRRs) inside of Firefox: https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2019/04/09/dns-over-https-policy-requirements-for-resolvers/ #DNSprivacy

‪Some day we will have #Spring in #Vermont. Today is not that day. #TheWinterThatGoesOnAndOnAndOn‬

"The internet is commonly described as a cloud. In reality, it’s a series of wet, fragile tubes, and Google is about to own an alarming number of them. The numbers speak for themselves; Google will own 10,433 miles of submarine cables internationally when the Curie cable is completed later this year. The total shoots up to 63,605 miles when you include cables it owns in consortium with Facebook, Microsoft, and Amazon." - https://venturebeat.com/2019/04/06/google-and-other-tech-giants-are-quietly-buying-up-the-most-important-part-of-the-internet/ #InternetAccess

A reminder of how far we have come - a 1973 map of the ARPANet - https://kottke.org/19/03/a-map-of-the-internet-from-may-1973

Oh, this is so incredibly brilliant! In order to make managing customer equipment easier, let's just stick their usernames and passwords in #DNS! Along with their credit cards and SSN! (Do look at the publishing date! 😉) https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8567

New audio: TDYR 361 - Reflections on IETF 104 in Prague - https://soundcloud.com/danyork/tdyr-361-reflections-on-ietf

Call for Papers: Journal of Cyber Policy to Publish Special Issue on Internet #Consolidation - Deadline is Monday, April 1 - https://www.internetsociety.org/issues/future/2019-consolidation-call-for-papers/

Do you know anyone in Human Resources / HR interested in a new role? We're seeking to hire someone to head our HR efforts at the Internet Society - join us to help build the team working to make sure the Internet is for everyone! Read more:
https://internetsociety.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=55

Mitigating Browser Fingerprinting in Web Specifications - https://www.w3.org/TR/fingerprinting-guidance/ - new set of best practices from the W3C - #privacy

‪Discussing how #IETF working groups can use #git and Github at #IETF104 ...‬

‪Starting #IETF104 Wednesday listening to the evolution of #QUIC