Remember 100 years ago when radiation was new and exciting and poorly understood, and companies were putting radiation into everything?

Thankfully we learned our lesson and will never make that mistake again.

Just over 4 years after publishing the first draft, NRTMv4 has been approved by the IESG! This was my first ever IETF draft. This new protocol dramatically improves Internet Routing Registry security and reliability.

All that remains now is the RFC Editor process. Four authors went through 11 versions, 25 reviewers/implementers, dozens of comments, and 5 interoperable implementations. Catch my talk at the #RIPE92 database working group to learn more.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-grow-nrtm-v4/

Een bijzondere aflevering van onze podcast. Karin Spaink, een van de oprichters van Bits of Freedom, is overleden. Joris van Hoboken en Evelyn Austin spraken haar over haar activisme en betrokkenheid bij Bits of Freedom.

Luister hier: https://www.bitsoffreedom.nl/podcast/in-gesprek-met-karin-spaink/

Lamport's new (and final) book A Science of Concurrent Programs is now officially published! The final draft PDF has long been available for free on Lamport's website, but now you can buy a hardcover from Cabridge press. Discussion on the TLA+ mailing list: https://discuss.tlapl.us/msg06762.html

#TLAPlus

RE: https://mastodon.nl/@nrc_nl/116465491667927123

Volgens het oude recept. In november 2025 werd de overname bekend. Toen was het te vroeg iets te doen. Dus deed men niets. En nu zeggen ze dat het te laat is om nog iets te doen. Klassieke truc die al in Yes Minister aangeraden werd.

Love this.
A peer reviewed blank page was published in 1974, without revision.

The unsuccessful self-treatment of a case of “writer's block” by Dennis Upper.

Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis.
https://doi.org/10.1901/jaba.1974.7-497a

Credit: Found this gem via ‘stephenknowstuff’ on another platform
#writersblock #academicchatter