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New UUID Formats

TLS 1.3 approved

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WebSockets RFC is now official

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Industry Concerns about TLS 1.3

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JMAP: A modern, open email protocol

The new JMAP email protocol provides a modern, efficient, easy-to-use API, built on many years of experience and field testing.

Enforcing TLS protocol invariants by rolling versions every six weeks

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News about Mark Crispin (author of the original IMAP specification)

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The HTTP Query Method

This specification defines the QUERY method for HTTP. A QUERY requests that the request target process the enclosed content in a safe and idempotent manner and then respond with the result of that processing. This is similar to POST requests but can be automatically repeated or restarted without concern for partial…

Yahoo breaks every mailing list in the world including the IETF's

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Apple and IPv6 – Happy Eyeballs

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IETF: The HTTP Query Method ( Draft)

This specification defines a new HTTP method, QUERY, as a safe, idempotent request method that can carry request content.

Re: Proposed Statement on "HTTPS everywhere for the IETF"

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Internet Protocol Version 8 (IPv8)

Internet Protocol Version 8 (IPv8) is a managed network protocol suite that transforms how networks of every scale -- from home networks to the global internet -- are operated, secured, and monitored. Every manageable element in an IPv8 network is authorised via OAuth2 JWT tokens served from a local cache. Every…

HTTP/2 Approved

After more than two years of discussion, over 200 design issues, 17 drafts, and 30 implementations, the HTTP/2 and HPACK specifications have now been approved by the IETF’s steering group for publication as standards-track RFCs.

IETF Draft: Centralization, Decentralization, and Internet Standards

Despite being designed and operated as a decentralized network-of-networks, the Internet is continuously subjected to forces that encourage centralization. This document offers a definition of centralization, explains why it is undesirable, identifies different types of it, catalogues limitations of common approaches…

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The HTTP Query Method

This specification defines a new HTTP method, QUERY, as a safe, idempotent request method that can carry request content.

Messaging layer security: Secure and usable end-to-end encryption

The IETF has approved publication of Messaging Layer Security (MLS), a new standard for end-to-end security that will make it easy for apps to provide the highest level of security to their users. End-to-end encryption is an increasingly important security feature in Internet applications. It keeps users’ information…

The harmful consequences of the robustness principle

The robustness principle, often phrased as "be conservative in what you send, and liberal in what you accept", has long guided the design and implementation of Internet protocols. The posture this statement advocates promotes interoperability in the short term, but can negatively affect the protocol ecosystem over…

How to Read an RFC (2018)

Requests for Comments (RFCs) are how we specify many protocols on the Internet. These documents are alternatively treated as holy texts by developers who parse them for hidden meanings, then shunned as irrelevant because they can’t be understood. This often leads to frustration and – more significantly …

New UUID formats have been approved

This document presents new time-based UUID formats which are suited for use as a database key. A common case for modern applications is to create a unique identifier for use as a primary key in a database table. This identifier usually implements an embedded timestamp that is sortable using the monotonic creation time…