Mark Nottingham

mnot@techpolicy.social

<p>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.</p><p>Social media is mostly-write for me - if you want to make sure I see something, e-mail.</p>

Posts

Post #2454925
&quot;A stable competitive market never has more than three significant competitors, the largest of which has no more than four times the market share of the smallest.&quot; https://www.bcg.com/publications/1976/business-unit-strategy-growth-rule-three-four
Post #2405985
I looked through Common Crawl and found over 300,000 parseable RSS/Atom feeds, confirming that Web feeds are still a major part of the Open Web. But most aren’t high quality, and autodiscovery often points users at stale or abandoned feeds. https://mnot.net/blog/2026/feed-survey
Post #1746989
Guidelines for aspiring Nobel Prize winners: 1. Do not threaten other countries with wholesale destruction and possible genocide.
Post #1746988
In 2026, kids skating in public spaces isn’t annoying - it’s FUCKING WHOLESOME, carrying on a 40+ year legacy, and certainly should not be considered any kind of crime.
Post #1746987
AI seems to have the same pathology that leads humans to name files like &quot;report_final_done_final2_lastone_finanimeanit_revision3&quot;
Post #1746986
I wrote a while back about Carliss Baldwin&#39;s excellent insights into platforms and openness. One of her underlying points (AIUI) is that modularity helps manage complexity, and at a certain scale and under certain conditions distributing it across multiple companies through standard interfaces makes sense. I can&#39;t help but wonder about how disruptive AI is to this -- tasks that used to be too complex for one person or one team to manage now can be handled with aplomb (if not a...
Post #1700607
Every online interaction is a lopsided negotiation. For AI to truly work for us, we need more than just safety -- we need to start building true agency as a form of collective bargaining. https://www.mnot.net/blog/2026/04/24/agents_as_collective_bargains
Post #1619577
Playing around with a new way to discover feeds on a site; feedback most welcome. https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-nottingham-feed-menu-00.html
Post #1505387
This needs to be spread wide and far. https://www.themandarin.com.au/311397-privacy-raised-during-teen-social-media-ban-tech-trial-were-ignored/
Post #1113516
In the last few weeks, Trump has done more for the worldwide adoption of electric vehicles than any previous US president. Congratulations.
Post #819424
Standards work is notoriously hard to track. Let’s explore if grounding AI in working group records can make that history more accessible. https://www.mnot.net/blog/2026/03/25/using_ai
Post #715786
To help find relevant RFCs no matter what your network connectivity, https://rfc.fyi now implements a service worker that caches the data locally for offline use, and can be installed as a Progressive Web app (PWA) -- i.e., you can install it to your iOS or Android home screen. Note that it still points to online-only RFCs at the RFC Editor site.
Post #676732
More belated introspection from the adtech industry. https://www.adexchanger.com/data-driven-thinking/the-privacy-zealots-were-right-ad-techs-infrastructure-was-always-a-risk/