Re: Greening of Streaming

Hi Dom,

Thanks for your message. We have many group discussions about the points
you mentioned. If you'd like to get more involved, here are some steps you
can take:

   - Join the group, which you can do on this page
   <https://www.w3.org/community/sustyweb/> (if you haven't already).
   - Read our group charter
   <https://www.w3.org/community/sustyweb/2022/09/06/sustainability-community-group-charter/>,
   which explains our mission and the scope of our work on the entire
   ecosystem and life cycle of digital products and services (not just network
   traffic), including a focus on the three pillars of sustainability
   (environment, social, economic).
   - Join the #sustainability channel of our Slack community
   <https://www.w3.org/slack-w3ccommunity-invite> to engage in group
   discussions.
   - Join our regular monthly meeting the last Wednesday of each month at
   2pm BST. (I'm happy to send an invite if that's of interest.)
   - Read the full set of guidelines <https://w3c.github.io/sustyweb/> here.

Thanks again for reaching out.

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On Fri, Sep 29, 2023 at 3:42 AM Dom Robinson <dom@id3as.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi folks
>
> I run an organisation www.greeningofstreaming.org
>
> The Guidelines just out caught my eye
> https://www.w3.org/community/sustyweb/2023/09/07/web-sustainability-guidelines/
>
> I would love to chat a bit more about this.
>
> Fundamentally research we have carried out and continue to carry out is
> clearly showing that in the distribution networks energy is not
> proportional to data traffic.
>
> This is a common misunderstanding. It leads to digital media companies
> being quite wed to the idea that saving data saves the planet.
>
> We are seeing no evidence that not sending data reduces energy
> consumption. We have been measuring events like the world cup streaming
> online and more, and network energy is not related to traffic, it is
> related to the peak provisioned capacity of the network. Much looks to be
> similar in cloud.
>
> It might be worth exploring that theme and thinking about it in terms of
> some of the guidelines you have been publishing..
>
> Do let me know if you would like to find out more
>
> Kind regards
>
> Dom
> --
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> www.id3as.co.uk
> www.greeningofstreaming.org
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