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Mark Nottingham

@mnot.net

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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. https://www.mnot.net

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Mark Nottingham @mnot.net · Dec 23

I don't monitor every @ - if you want to make sure I see something, e-mail.

Mark Nottingham @mnot.net · 9d

RFC 9842 is HTTP Compression Dictionary Transport -- this is a big one!

Congrats @Yoav and @PatMeenan ! https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9842.html

Mark Nottingham @mnot.net · 21d

Achieving policymakers' goals in coordination with Internet standards activity can be difficult. This post explores some of the options and considerations involved.

www.mnot.net/blog/2025/09...

Bridging the Gap Between Standards and Policy

Achieving policymakers' goals in coordination with Internet standards activity can be difficult. This post explores some of the options and considerations involved.

Mark Nottingham @mnot.net · 24d

What is this new rounded corner hell?

Mark Nottingham @mnot.net · Sep 10

What the fuck is wrong with the country I was born in? https://punchdrink.com/articles/ice-immigration-resources-bars-restaurants/

Mark Nottingham @mnot.net · Sep 9

I've put up a quick archive of the old Syndication mailing list that I ran way back when on Yahoo! Groups. An artefact of simpler times... https://www.mnot.net/rss/syndication/

Mark Nottingham @mnot.net · Aug 20

If you work on HTTP implementations, deploy it at scale, or have a unique perspective or interest in the protocol, you might find other people to talk to at the 2026 HTTP Workshop: https://github.com/HTTPWorkshop/workshop2026?tab=readme-ov-file#2026-http-workshop

Mark Nottingham @mnot.net · Aug 19

that they've lost naming rights to the building.

#auspol

Mark Nottingham @mnot.net · Aug 19

This picture is from 3 August. Since then, the Toll signage you see on the building (owned by Mirvac, I think) has disappeared -- likely because there was a protest action targeting Toll due to (AIUI) their involvement in shipments of arms to Israel.

Without knowing any more than that, I suspect

Mark Nottingham @mnot.net · Jul 22

Mad.

Mark Nottingham @mnot.net · Jun 29

Mark Nottingham @mnot.net · Jun 28

I guess you could say that things are getting serious… #ietf https://www.ietf.org/blog/ai-pref-progress/

Mark Nottingham @mnot.net · Jun 28

Mark Nottingham @mnot.net · Jun 28

@pluralistic perhaps the amount of power that monopolists amass scares even those with masses of power.

Mark Nottingham @mnot.net · Jun 28

More than anything, the latest Supreme Court ruling signifies a disruption of the structure of American law -- nothing is safe anymore. https://music.apple.com/au/album/nothing-is-safe/1473856273?i=1473856276

Mark Nottingham @mnot.net · Jun 28

result, this opinion is another example of how the Supreme Court keeps playing Calvinball with our civil liberties." https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2025/06/prof-goldmans-statement-on-the-supreme-courts-demolition-of-the-internet-in-free-speech-coalition-v-paxton.htm

Mark Nottingham @mnot.net · Jun 28

"The Supreme Court took a wrecking ball to Internet Law today in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton. The majority (disingenuously) overturned two critical decades-old precedents restricting online age authentication [...]. By upending long-standing and well-settled rules to reach a pro-censorship

Mark Nottingham @mnot.net · Jun 12

"non-US citizens" = brown people

Mark Nottingham @mnot.net · Jun 5

Is AI a useful option for policymakers who want to evaluate open standards? Let's take a look. https://www.mnot.net/blog/2025/06/04/using_ai

Mark Nottingham @mnot.net · May 21

So, Google just launched a major new AI demo that requires people to relax their browser security settings. Wow.

Mark Nottingham @mnot.net · May 20

distributed—may gain significant advantages." https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/05/trumps-trade-war-risks-splintering-the-internet-experts-warn/

Mark Nottingham @mnot.net · May 20

"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

Mark Nottingham @mnot.net · May 17

Mark Nottingham @mnot.net · May 14

This reminds me of Ian Bremmer's piece in Foreign Affairs: www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

... but that one is a bit less hopeful.

The Technopolar Paradox

The frightening fusion of tech power and state power.

www.foreignaffairs.com

Mark Nottingham @mnot.net · May 14

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

Mark Nottingham @mnot.net · May 14

"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