Co-chair IETF HTTP & AIPREF working groups, member Internet Architecture Board (again), standards lead at Cloudflare. Former W3C TAG, W3C BoD. Interested in the intersection of legal regulation and technical standards.
I don't monitor every @ - if you want to make sure I see something, e-mail.
| Web | https://www.mnot.net/ |
| Town | Melbourne, Australia |
| Land | Bunurong |
| Pronouns | He/him/mate |
Is AI a useful option for policymakers who want to evaluate open standards? Let's take a look.
"A surprising potential consequence of digital tariffs could be the accelerated development and adoption of open-source technologies," Shah wrote. "As proprietary digital products and services become subject to cross-border tariffs, open-source alternatives—which can be freely shared, modified, and distributed—may gain significant advantages."
"Yet beneath their ideological differences, the American and Chinese models are converging in function. One is driven by market logic, the other by political imperatives—but both prioritize efficiency over accountability, control over consent, and scale over individual rights. In a world where authority accrues to those who control the digital space, it may matter less whether power resides in public or private hands than how effectively it can be centralized."
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/technopolar-paradox-ian-bremmer-fusion-tech-state-power
My team at Cloudflare are hiring mid-level and senior engineers to help us go deep on network protocols (HTTP, QUIC, TLS etc.) as we build and deploy our new Rust-based proxy.
More details over on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/lucaspardue_the-cloudflare-protocols-team-is-hiring-for-activity-7326056199198564352-fE_p
The Cloudflare Protocols team is hiring for a number of roles! Come work with me and my awesome manager Michelle Torres 🏳️🌈. We're looking for experienced mid-level and senior engineers to go deep on networking protocols, helping us build the next generation of cutting-edge high-performance proxy services. We're doing this in Rust, based on software such as Cloudflare's quiche library, and its Oxy framework. Each day our team, in collaboration with colleagues and industry partners, helps to build a better Internet by developing the standards themselves and deploying running code. Some examples include QUIC and HTTP/3, Encrypted Client Hello, and MASQUE tunnelling. For our mid-level roles, expertise in QUIC, HTTP or TLS is not a prerequisite. We're looking for folks that would like to develop in that direction among a team of experts. The position is hybrid, in London, Lisbon or Austin locations. For our senior roles, we're looking for strong ability, proven experience, and deep understanding of: HTTP/2, HTTP/3, QUIC, congestion control, transport protocols, and closely related technology areas. The position is hybrid, in Lisbon or Bengaluru. Reach out to me or Michelle Torres 🏳️🌈 if you'd like to know more.
Set your iPhone language to “English (Australia)” and then try to type some words.
Realize aluminum color
Those are American spellings.
For a company that obsessively auto capitalizes (argh capitalises) words like “FaceTime” and “Apple”, it’s hard to see this as unintentional. They employ many experts in language and internationalisation.
Someone, somewhere at Apple made a conscious decision to push Australian language more towards the US. They’re culture hacking us.
Breaking big tech's hold over people's experience of the Internet is not "breaking the Internet."
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/brewing-transatlantic-tech-war
Lucas Pardue
