Pre-flight IETF 119

What you shouldn't miss whether you're online or in Brisbane for the upcoming IETF 119:

• Check out the full meeting agenda, where you can usually download slides in advance as well as view draft minutes and video recordings shortly after sessions complete: https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/119/agenda
• You can view the live stream of select IETF sessions like the plenary and IAB Open on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ietf/streams
• First thing Monday is "alldispatch," which is a new experiment to bring together all dispatch sessions (security, general, etc) for work that needs a determination or direction to progress https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/119/session/alldispatch
• Another recent change is the new "Web and Internet Transport" area that combines parts of both the Transport area and the Applications area. You can view all new WIT sessions, including WebTransport and MASQUE here: https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/119/agenda?filters=avtcore,ccwg,cdni,core,httpapi,httpbis,masque,moq,nfsv4,quic,sconepro,tcpm,tsvwg,webtrans,wish,witarea
• If you follow digital identity, make sure to check out newly chartered WIMSE https://datatracker.ietf.org/group/wimse/about/, SPICE (not yet a working group) https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/119/session/spice.
• In addition to the official agenda, there are also side meetings to check out. I'm more than a little surprised at all of the AI talk https://wiki.ietf.org/meeting/119/sidemeetings
• Detecting Unwanted Location Trackers is meeting https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/119/session/dult; as is More Instant Messaging Interoperability https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/119/session/mimi

From the internet:

• CDT and partners explain to a court in Nevada why preventing kids from using end-to-end encrypted messaging services does not, in fact, make them in any way safer https://cdt.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/03-11-2024-NV-E2EE-AMICUS-BRIEF-FINAL-combined.pdf
• Ryan Polk from the Internet Society writes to the US Congress, "Don’t give away the keys to our encrypted communications" https://thehill.com/opinion/cybersecurity/4501374-congress-dont-give-away-the-keys-to-our-encrypted-communications
• I wrote a blog post to put my remarks to the Global Digital Compact in more context https://cdt.org/insights/comments-to-the-united-nations-on-the-global-digital-compact. Other technical community members have recently weighed in:
  • Chris Buckridge posted his GDC comments https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/crafting-global-digital-compact-chris-buckridge-6nzne
  • Konstantinos Komaitis, now with Atlantic Council's DFRLab, posted his, too https://dfrlab.org/2024/03/01/second-statement-of-konstantinos-komaitis-to-the-united-nations-on-the-global-digital-compact
• There is one more day to get in your applications to ARTICLE 19's funded Fellowship for public interest technologists interested in standards https://www.article19.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Call-for-Applications-2024-IoR-Fellowship-2.pdf
• Lauren Chambers at UC Berkeley's iSchool is looking for public interest technologists for her research! https://www.linkedin.com/posts/laurenmarietta_public-interest-tech-study-screener-survey-activity-7173839747105193985-bDpA?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop
• European Court of Justice finds that "there is an overriding public interest in the disclosure of the harmonised standards on the safety of toys, since they form part of EU law owing to their legal effects" https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2024-03/cp240041en.pdf
• Instability in Yemen and the four fiber optic cables damaged in the Red Sea https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacharyfolk/2024/03/04/four-fiber-optic-cables-damaged-in-red-sea-heres-what-we-know/?sh=58e1ca5f55b1
• A notorious Israeli spyware firm wants to use the Gaza war to make a comeback https://thehill.com/opinion/cybersecurity/4433419-a-notorious-israeli-spyware-firm-wants-to-use-the-gaza-war-to-make-a-comeback/
• ICYMI: For the first in a four-part series, Dr Matt Mahmoudi gives a lecture on "Hi-tech powered genocide in Gaza" https://youtu.be/E4W7e6qgyx0
• Today: Don't miss the second edition with Marwa Fatafta on "Living Israel’s high tech system of oppression" https://tinyurl.com/Palestine4Tech