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!

https://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-40/

#Internet #OpenStandards

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!

https://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-40/

#Internet #OpenStandards

@ferret are we sure that it's an open standard?

I was under the impression that Matrix was an "open protocol" for decentralised, secure communications "that provided a set of open APIs" for decentralised communication.

Unlike #XMPP which is an actual open #IETF standard with multiple implementations in the form of clients, servers, server components, and code libraries.

@debacle @caten

This is not a thrilling post. It is a reference. I put together a field guide to how identity standards actually get made across the IETF, W3C, OpenID Foundation, and FIDO. I’ll be pointing back to this all year.

#standards #OIDF #IETF #W3C #FIDO

https://sphericalcowconsulting.com/2026/01/13/sdo-process-field-guide/

This is not a thrilling post. It is a reference. I put together a field guide to how identity standards actually get made across the IETF, W3C, OpenID Foundation, and FIDO. I’ll be pointing back to this all year.

#standards #OIDF #IETF #W3C #FIDO

https://sphericalcowconsulting.com/2026/01/13/sdo-process-field-guide/

Happy Jabber Day 🎂 🥳

On January 4, 1999, Jabber was first announced to the public¹.

Twenty-seven years later, Jabber—or XMPP, as it became known after standardization through the #IETF—remains the only truly vendor-independent, federated instant messaging platform.

In almost three decades, XMPP has never stopped evolving and remains our best tool for digital independence.

¹: http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/01/04/1621211

#DigitalIndependenceDay #Jabber #XMPP #DiDit #DigitalSovereignty #DiDay

So, what is IRC?

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1459

"Jabber—or XMPP, as it became known after standardization through the #IETF—remains the only truly vendor-independent, federated instant messaging platform."

@daniel

Happy Jabber Day 🎂 🥳

On January 4, 1999, Jabber was first announced to the public¹.

Twenty-seven years later, Jabber—or XMPP, as it became known after standardization through the #IETF—remains the only truly vendor-independent, federated instant messaging platform.

In almost three decades, XMPP has never stopped evolving and remains our best tool for digital independence.

¹: http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=99/01/04/1621211

#DigitalIndependenceDay #Jabber #XMPP #DiDit #DigitalSovereignty #DiDay

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@interlisp/115711583068137949

Drop what you're doing and listen to @masinter Larry Masinter talk about computing history and lore. He tells first hand stories on the early web, Gopher, Hypertext Coffee Pot Control Protocol, mailto:, and a whole lot more including Interlisp.

https://netstack.fm/#episode-17

@Jayhoffmann may be interested.

#retrocomputing #interlisp #web #gopher #ietf

#IETF to discuss if RFC 1480 (describing the .us TLD a long time ago) should be reclassified as "Historic".

At #IETF, gender is a list, not a scalar.

Gender (Check all that apply): ['man']

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@interlisp/115711583068137949

Drop what you're doing and listen to @masinter Larry Masinter talk about computing history and lore. He tells first hand stories on the early web, Gopher, Hypertext Coffee Pot Control Protocol, mailto:, and a whole lot more including Interlisp.

https://netstack.fm/#episode-17

@Jayhoffmann may be interested.

#retrocomputing #interlisp #web #gopher #ietf