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W3C Kept the HTTP Door. The DID Dereferencer Lost Its Badge
A resolver can still answer over HTTPS. The last move from a DID URL to the thing a person actually uses belongs to a different part of the system.
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Click No. Brussels wants the cookie nag to take four months off
The Council's draft gives a refusal a memory and sorts measurement tools into separate drawers. The quietest pop-up is the one a site is barred from showing again.
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W3C’s Draft Gives Old Standards New Tricks. Your Link May Keep a Straight Face
A quiet line in W3C’s proposed Process would let any Recommendation acquire new features through an amendment path. Today, a Recommendation has to declare that possibility before its first publication or send the new feature through a fresh technical report. The draft retires…
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W3C’s Draft Removes One TAG Veto. The Team Still Holds the Pen
Two W3C Technical Architecture Group appointments in February carried two approvals each: one from the TAG, one from the Advisory Board. The next Process draft would erase the Advisory Board’s vote. The unusual part is that the Advisory Board asked to give it up. That leaves a…
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Europe may charge the biggest data diners extra. The menu has no prices yet
The Council wants public bodies to send a different bill to companies large enough to turn civic records into a private advantage. The tricky part is writing a price list that survives daylight.
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W3C Closed the Advisory Board’s Side Door. The Rulebook Still Shows the Way In
W3C’s elected Advisory Board once had a written route into corporate Board meetings: up to two non-voting liaisons. The corporate Board ended that program, the next Process draft deletes the route, and the operative Process still prints the directions. A governance document can…
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The Safety Hub Speaks Arabic. The Workshop Binder Still Speaks English
The Internet Society has opened its online safety hub in Arabic, French, Spanish and Turkish. The page for the course that local trainers can carry into a room still says the curriculum is available only in English. That gap is the difference between finding advice and being able…
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Brussels drew one cyber inbox. The Council drew a map to local desks
The EU's digital-rulebook rewrite has acquired a new floor plan. A European guide would tell organisations where to report an incident; national entry points would take the report.
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MANRS Wants a Tougher Routing Rule. Its Own Minutes Cannot Agree on the Headcount
MANRS is sharpening the promises network operators make about routing security. The awkward part arrives before a router is touched: one meeting record puts the effect of a strict registry rule near 40% of entities, while the next gives 13% in its detailed account and nearly 40%…
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Europe's paperless border has a rehearsal. The forms still have to cross
The EU's Once-Only Technical System starts its Checkpoint preparations on 27 October. In November, national teams will try real end-to-end document exchanges while coordinators judge whether a person can actually finish the service.
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Europe’s Open Internet Watchdogs Have a Filing Cabinet. The Network Needs a Meter
BEREC’s tenth annual look at open-internet oversight found a crowded desk and a smaller test bench. For one central question about internet-access conditions, 25 regulators requested information from providers, 24 studied user reports, and nine used technical network monitoring.…
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The CRTC Had Two Clocks. British Columbia Made Them Disagree
A Canadian telecom filing could be on time by the regulator’s public instructions and late by the regulator’s written rule. British Columbia’s decision to stop changing clocks exposed the split. The CRTC has picked one deadline for today’s proceedings; the rulebook still carries…
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The Hotel Listing, the Phishing Message and the Ad Walk Into Brussels
Booking.com’s search page, reservation messages and paid rankings now sit in one European Commission case file. The regulator has opened a formal Digital Services Act investigation into three different doors through which a booking can go wrong. The fourth door is institutional…
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The Transparency Report Starts With a Question the Platform Gets to Edit
Ofcom is preparing annual online-safety transparency notices. Before anyone publishes a report, the regulator will ask the public about its method and give each covered service its own draft list of reporting demands. The argument over what gets measured begins in the margins of…
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The Platform Pays the Expert. Ofcom Holds the Veto.
Britain’s online-safety regulator is looking for people who can inspect the services it oversees. The appointment rules give Ofcom the scope and the final say on expertise; the service under examination receives the bill. That arrangement deserves more attention than the polite…
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ITU has 48 Council seats. The Americas brought exactly nine names for nine of them.
One region arrived at the election with a perfectly packed suitcase. Four others brought spare candidates. The difference was settled before anybody picked up a ballot pencil.
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More Bad Months, Smaller Bad Crowds
A registration gate can face trouble often and still keep each outbreak small. ICANN's new Category 1 analysis asks the awkward question an average abuse rate dodges: did the guard stop entry, contain the crowd, or just move the cleanup bill?
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The Route Had Papers. The Cryptography Said No.
The Route Had Papers. The Cryptography Said No. intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure consequences that may follow. The CASE FILE…
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RIPE Gave One Long Talk Three Microphones
A 30-minute conference slot is a generous thing to give a ten-minute idea. At RIPE 93, the Programme Committee put three speakers where one plenary lecture would have stood. The room gained two voices; the rejected draft deck gained a useful edit.
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The Probe Moved. Its Dot Stayed Put.
A RIPE Atlas probe can cross a border in a cardboard box while its public map pin keeps working the old address. Researchers have now followed that little clerical comedy into the measurements people use to locate the Internet.
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