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Tue 26 Apr 2022

Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)

Copyright-ignoring AI scraper bots laugh at robots.txt so the IETF is trying to improve it

Recently formed AI Preferences Working Group has August deadline to develop ideas on how to tell crawlers to go away, or come for a feast

AI + ML09 Apr 2025 | 35

250 million-plus reserved IPv4 addresses could be released – but the internet isn’t built to use them

Comment A new chapter in the long saga of the 240/4 block is being written. If you want more and cheaper IPv4, maybe you should help

Networks09 Feb 2024 | 156

China's efforts to influence standards are mostly fake – and flopping

But Carnegie Endowment worries a handful are real, and that the ITU is 'susceptible to manipulation'

Software02 Mar 2023 | 10

UN's ITU election may spell the end of our open internet

Updated Russia, China believe in more national control, maybe baked into standards. Resistance is fierce - and was victorious!

Networks29 Sep 2022 | 67

A great day for non-robots: iOS 16 will bypass CAPTCHAs

A bot says what? Apple relies on IETF standards to remove annoyance, citing privacy and accessibility

Security21 Jun 2022 | 29

IETF publishes HTTP/3 RFC to take the web from TCP to UDP

Maps HTTP to QUIC to speed the web

Networks07 Jun 2022 | 83

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Ukraine war a sorting hat for cyber-governance loyalties: Black Hat founder Jeff Moss

Black Hat Asia Private orgs that flex with Russian bans may do more harm – to themselves – than good

Security12 May 2022 | 19

China again signals desire to shape IPv6 standards

Calls for accelerated adoption as local users pass 700 million

Networks26 Apr 2022 | 70

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