Low Entropy

The Distributed Aggregation Protocol (DAP) is really complicated.

Today, the IETF held the CURRENT BoF, where the goal was to develop a new protocol.

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Before I start, go and read https://www.hacklore.org/letter.

AI preferences exist to give those who create and distribute content online a way to express how they would like to see that content used.

So you have a device, maybe IoT, or just something that sits in a home somewhere.

A lot of people are deeply concerned about misinformation.

Why does this matter?

Before I start on my thoughts, if you work for a W3C member organization, please head to the 2023 TAG Election page.

Fraud and abuse online are pretty serious problems.

Aggregation is a powerful tool when it comes to providing privacy for users.

The idea of bundling is deceptively simple.

There is a perennial question in standards development about the value of the different artefacts that the process kicks out.

I spend a shocking amount of my time staring at IETF documents, both Internet-Drafts and RFCs.

The IAB EDM Program[1] met this morning.

Today we heard an announcement that Cloudflare, Apple, and Fastly are collaborating on a new technology for improving privacy of DNS queries using a technology they call Oblivious DoH (ODoH).