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@danyork@mastodon.social
2026-01-16 20:16:33

Forty years ago, 21 people gathered for the first meeting of what became the Internet Engineering Task Force or #IETF . Every day billions of people use the open standards and technologies developed in the IETF. And nearly 8000 volunteer IETF participants from around the world collaborate in more than 100 working groups evolving those open standards and making the Internet work better!

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2025-12-09 14:45:50

Source: Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and more are set to unveil the Agentic AI Foundation to build open-source AI agent standards as soon as this week (Aaron Holmes/The Information)
theinformation.com/articles/op

@seav@en.osm.town
2025-11-20 15:47:51

In 2021 I gave a talk about “openness” briefly tracing the history from the Free Software movement, #GNU, and OSS, to open formats like XML and ODF, then to the #FreeCulture and #OpenData movement like

Open Formats and Standards
Open Geospatial Consortium

Free and Open Source Software
OSGeo

Linked Open Data
OpenStreetMap
@TobiasFrech@ijug.social
2025-10-27 15:56:30

"From closed rooms to open dialogue: how to participate in #CRA vertical #standards "
Today, 17:00 CET

@chrysn@chaos.social
2025-11-27 13:21:12

The WebSerial specification is on of those web APIs implemented only in Chrome so far; Mozilla have revised their standards position from "harmful" to "neutral" when they established the mechanism addon-gating, but are merely open to patches.
But an add-on, "WebSerial for Firefox" already fills the gap well. The caveat compared to any Mozilla sanctioned approach is that it needs a local helper, but that is well managed through the native-messaging-hosts me…

The Epstein file is the only thing Trump has ever taken his name off of
-- Senator Ron Wyden
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