Internet.nlMet Internet.nl test je eenvoudig of jouw website, e-mail en verbinding moderne internetstandaarden gebruiken. 🔍 Dat vragen we ook van onze leden en leveranciers. 🤝
Ons huidige Git-platform voldoet helaas niet aan al onze wensen. 🚨 Daarom verzamelen we ideeën om ons huidige platform te back-uppen of om over te stappen naar een ander Git-platform: https://github.com/internetstandards/Internet.nl/issues/873. 💭
Heb jij ervaring met moderne Git-oplossingen? Deel je tips en ideeën hier. 👇
ResearchBuzz: FirehoseDebugBear: What is JPEG XL: do we really need another image format?. “In 2018, the Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) issued a call for proposals for the ‘next-generation image compression’. Numerous proposals were submitted, but only two were selected to proceed, one by Cloudinary (FUIF) and one by Google (PIK). The two were eventually combined to create JPEG XL (often shortened to JXL), […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/07/what-is-jpeg-xl-do-we-really-need-another-image-format-debugbear/
Bart Knubben@rickvanrooijen @MastodonEngineering @staff
Valid point. The mastodon.social instance already seems to support inbound IPv6: https://en.internet.nl/site/mastodon.social/3738895/#siteipv6
However, for actual interaction and federation via IPv6 outbound support is needed as well and the latter indeed seems to be missing. Hopefully they can fix this.
We were happy to be present in the "Modern Email" devroom at @fosdem!
Email is the workhorse of digital communication and it is important to keep our implementations up to date and interoperable.
Benjamin Broersma (@forumstandaardisatie) gave a talk on email configuration, highlighting some useful testing tools, and common config errors.
The video recording is now available at https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/H9GEBT-fos-check-tooling-for-mail-config/.
Enjoy watching, and questions are welcome!
Ars Technica: Google temporarily disabled YouTube’s advanced captions without warning. “Google has now posted a brief statement and confirmed to Ars that it has not ended support for SRV3. However, all is not well. The company says it has temporarily limited the serving of SRV3 caption files because they may break playback for some users.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/22/ars-technica-google-temporarily-disabled-youtubes-advanced-captions-without-warning/
Happy holidays and a great start to the new year! 🎄💫☃️
In 2025, you carried out 850,000 tests via the website and 12 million via the API & dashboard. 🚀
Keep up the great work and continue testing & improving in 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣6️⃣!
Need help? The number of hosters in the Hall of Fame (https://en.internet.nl/halloffame/hosters/) has grown by 50%, giving you plenty of options to choose from. 🤝
These results would not have been possible without our valued platform members (see 1st comment).
The Linux Foundation: Linux Foundation Announces the Formation of the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), Anchored by New Project Contributions Including Model Context Protocol (MCP), goose and AGENTS.md. “The Linux Foundation announced the formation of the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) with founding contributions of leading technical projects including Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP), […]
We are pleased to welcome Alena Muravska from @ripencc as the new Chair of the Global Internet Standards Testing Community (GISTC).
Many thanks to Wout de Natris - van der Borght for setting up the international community around Internet.nl.
For more info on the GISTC, see https://intgovforum.org/en/content/igf-2025-launch-award-event-96-empower-the-global-internet-standards-testing-community
Interested in joining? Please send an email to [email protected].
The Dutch Internet Standards Platform, the public-private partnership behind Internet.nl, and #Punktum_dk, the organisation behind the Danish sikkerpånettet.dk and registry of the .dk domain, are proud to announce that #Punktum_dk will make an annual contribution to the maintenance and further development of Internet.nl.
Read more about the partnership here: https://en.internet.nl/article/punktum-dk-contribution/
The @EUCommission seeks participants for the Multi-Stakeholder Forum on Internet Standards Deployment.
The Commission launches this Forum to guide deployment of key Internet standards under NIS2 network security measures and promote wider industry uptake. Applicants wishing to join the Forum from the start are strongly encouraged to submit their applications no later than *12 December 2025*.
For more information see https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/european-commission-seeks-participants-multi-stakeholder-forum-internet-standards-deployment.