#marknottingham — Public Fediverse posts

Mark Nottingham's latest magnum opus, "The Internet is for End Users," is a riveting #manifesto declaring the radical idea that the Internet should actually serve the people who use it. 🎉🤡 Because who knew that the purpose of the Internet wasn't solely for the amusement of tech oligarchs and their servers? 🙄 #RevolutionaryInsights
https://mnot.net/blog/2020/for_the_users #RevolutionaryInsights #InternetForThePeople #TechForUsers #MarkNottingham #HackerNews #ngated

There Are No Standards Police

https://www.mnot.net/blog/2024/03/13/voluntary

"There are no standards police. In other words, even if you do consider Internet standards to be a regulatory force, there is no enforcement mechanism. One of their key characteristics is that they’re voluntary. No one forces you to adopt them. No one can penalise you for violating a MUST; you have to want to conform." -- #MarkNottingham #mnot

#api360 #standards #IETF

RFC 9518 - What Can Internet Standards Do About Centralisation?

https://www.mnot.net/blog/2023/12/19/standards-and-centralization

"Internet standards bodies can be seen as a kind of regulator, in that they constrain the behaviour of others. So it’s natural to wonder whether standards bodies (like the IETF and W3C) can help avoid or mitigate Internet centralization." -- #MarkNottingham #mnot

#ietf #api360

Technical Standards Bodies are Regulators

https://www.mnot.net/blog/2023/11/01/regulators

"Just like the FTC in the US, the eSafety Commissioner in Australia, or the ICO in the UK, Standards Developing Organizations (SDOs) have a fundamentally regulatory aspect to them, and considering them in this way clarifies how they relate to Internet governance." -- #MarkNottingham

#api360 #IETF #SDO

"Therefore, standards efforts should focus on providing concrete utility to the majority of their users as published, rather than being a “framework” where interoperability is not immediately available. Internet functions should not make every aspect of their operation extensible; boundaries between modules should be designed in a way that allows evolution and discourages consolidation, while still offering meaningful functionality."

#MarkNottingham, 2023

"... policymakers can use this document to help identify and evaluate proposed remedies for inappropriately centralized protocols and applications."

#MarkNottingham, 2023

https://mnot.github.io/avoiding-internet-centralization/draft-nottingham-avoiding-internet-centralization.html

#policy #TechPolicy #decentralization #centralization