Post #2431168

2026-02-18 21:49 UTC

@autiomaa@mementomori.social So true. It's been years since I was involved with the IETF/etc, but so many just really competent and knowledgeable people were happy to give me the time of day when I was a snot-nosed twenty-year-old. Sally Floyd (RIP) and Van Jacobson happy to discourse on congestion control, Randy Bush and Geoff Huston on routing and autonomous systems, etc. I really believe the Internet we have today (whether we're doing the right things with it or not) is because they shared experience. @florian@bsd.network

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@autiomaa@mementomori.social 2026-02-18 22:33

@elb@social.sdf.org @florian@bsd.network I was there on the ICANN event just on a few evenings, because I had a day job in a software consulting company. But since my friend was going to the ICANN event, I knew it was a good opportunity to see a small slice of how things are run globally. Most of the attendees at the event were lawyers from countries around the world. There were technical engineering people (like those who had been doing it since the 1980s), but there were also lobbyists from Google etc. who were really silent about their presence at the event. Heard from a friend that Google mostly had closed doors meetings with different participants (while it was trying to influence decision making process in some ways).

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