As we celebrate Earth Day 2026, what is the technical community—the people who actually build and operate the Internet—doing about climate concerns and environmental sustainability?

Today I wrote on the @internetsociety blog about two groups working within the Internet Engineering Task Force ( #IETF ) and the Internet Research Task Force ( #IRTF ) to look at some of these topics...
https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2026/04/climate-and-environmental-sustainability-within-the-ietf-and-irtf/

#EarthDay #EarthDay2026 #Climate #ClimateChange #Sustainability

what are these guys smoking?

https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/cfrg/arwZRrgGid3AaMgTUNbGXJLJk_8/

context:
https://github.com/cfrg/draft-irtf-cfrg-concrete-hybrid-kems/pull/28

#irtf #standards #cfrg #postquantum

Kélé sous le coup d’une nouvelle OQTF

La préfecture tente de passer en force. Kélé sous le coup d’une nouvelle #OQTF + #IRTF de 2 ans + pointage hebdomadaire à la PAF! Malgré ses 11 ans de présence en France, son intégration exemplaire, l’annulation de son OQTF du 11 mars 2024 par le tribunal administratif le 12 décembre 2024 et l’avis favorable à sa #régularisation de la commission au titre de séjour en février 2025 !

✒️ Par Soutenez Kélé | En accès libre › https://blogs.mediapart.fr/soutenez-kele/blog/060525/kele-sous-le-coup-dune-nouvelle-oqtf-1?at_medium=rs-cm&at_campaign=mastodon&at_account=mediapartblogs

Last month I had the honor to partipate in #IETF122 in Bangkok on the #IRTF #Diversity Travel Grant. I also took the opportunity to stay a week longer to have a look at the city.

Letzten Monat hatte ich die Ehre durch den #IRTF #Diversity Travel Grant an der #IETF122 in Bangkok teilzunehmen. Ich nahm auch die Gelegenheit wahr, eine Woche länger zu bleiben, um mir die Stadt anzusehen.

Reminder – nominations for the Applied Networking Research Prize (ANRP) 2025 are due at the end of this week, on 15 November 2024. Please consider nominating your best applied networking research papers – self nominations are strongly encouraged!

https://www.irtf.org/anrp/

#IETF #IRTF
https://discuss.systems/@irtf/113228016387876374

Reminder – nominations for the Applied Networking Research Prize (ANRP) 2025 are due in just under three week, on 15 November 2024. Please consider nominating your best applied networking research papers.

https://www.irtf.org/anrp/

#IETF #IETF121 #IRTF https://discuss.systems/@irtf/113228016387876374

New post: Submissions open for IRTF 2025A

https://cphlo.net/abc/index.php/2024/09/14/2025a-solicitation-irtf-time/

#IRTF #asteroid #comet