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Posted in Tech Matters | Posted on 18.03.13 by Leslie Daigle | 0 Comments
How can content creators express and share the rights they intend for the digital content they produce?
The good news out of the Internet Society briefing panel at the IETF 86 meeting in Orlando last week is that we have a lot of experience and existing examples of technologies to draw on to address this basic challenge.
Looking at the digital content rights situation of the...
Posted in Tech Matters | Posted on 13.03.13 by Russ Housley | 0 Comments
Today, 13 March 2013, I stepped down as Chair of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). At the IETF 86 meeting in Orlando, Florida, I gave some parting comments to the engineers, computer scientists, and researchers that attended the meeting. In closing, I have a message to governments from around the world:
If you’ve embraced the Internet, you should also embrace the standards that make...
Posted in Tech Matters | Posted on 06.03.13 by Mat Ford | 0 Comments
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is the pre-eminent global standards organisation for Internet technologies and it will be meeting all next week in Orlando, Florida. Prior to each IETF meeting, three times a year, we put together a guide to the sessions most relevant to our programmatic work. At this IETF meeting we are focussing on the following broad categories of work:
Trust...
Posted in Public Policy | Posted on 03.03.13 by Konstantinos Komaitis | 0 Comments
There is a ‘book famine’ – in the North, apparently, less than 5% of the books published are available in a form accessible by the blind community. In the South, this figure is no more than 1%. The WIPO Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works by Persons with Print Disabilities[1]will hopefully address this issue as Member States are negotiating a final text before the Diplomatic...
Posted in Tech Matters | Posted on 27.02.13 by Leslie Daigle | 0 Comments
I've had the pleasure of attending the APRICOT 2013 conference in Singapore this week. As always, it has featured an interesting technical agenda -- part emerging standards and technologies, and part operator experience discussions. Many of the faces are familiar -- the technology developers show up in different parts of the world to talk through recent IETF working group items, etc. And,...