Re: Welcome / introductions

Hi all,

My name is Nick Doty and I work on supporting privacy and human rights
in Internet and Web standards with the Center for Democracy &
Technology. At UC Berkeley's School of Information, I studied tech
policy with Deirdre Mulligan and wrote my doctoral dissertation on
Enacting Privacy in Internet Standards [0]. And I've been contributing
to W3C standards for a decade or so: as a student I analyzed the
Geolocation API; as part of the W3C Team I managed the Privacy
Interest Group (PING) and Do Not Track efforts; and since then I've
been reviewing Web specifications for privacy, writing guidance on
mitigating browser fingerprinting and other topics, and I'm now
co-chairing PING [1].

I'm excited to participate in this group both because I believe in
interoperability as a way to combat consolidation and improve the
diversity of online services and because I've seen the opportunities
and limitations of multistakeholder processes and want
interoperability proposals to reflect what we've learned from Internet
standard-setting.

I live in Durham, North Carolina, near the Eno River and on land first
farmed by the Eno and Occaneechi people, some of whom had been
previously displaced by European settlers in Virginia [2], and later
farmed by enslaved people on nearby plantations [3]. I'm on US Eastern
Time and can easily travel by train to meet along the East Coast.

Thanks Mark and friends for getting this important work started!

Cheers,
Nick

[0] https://npdoty.name/writing/enacting-privacy/
[1] https://www.w3.org/Privacy/IG/
[2] https://obsn.org/a-brief-history-of-the-occaneechi-band-of-the-saponi-nation/
[3] https://historicsites.nc.gov/all-sites/historic-stagville

On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 12:49 AM Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote:
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> Hello everyone. Welcome to the Community Group!
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> We're just getting started, so please excuse the quiet while we wait for people to join and allow the Americans their holiday. I'm aiming to hold an online meeting before the end of the year, so that we can start discussing how the group will function and what we want to focus on first.
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> However, it'd first be good to get to know each other.  Please send an e-mail introducing yourself, including:
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> * A brief summary of your background
> * Why you're participating in this group
> * Where you call home (so we can try to schedule meetings when it's not *too* painful for anyone)
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> I'll start below.
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> ---
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> My name is Mark Nottingham, and I'm one of the folks who supported formation of this Community Group and coordinated drafting of the charter.
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> I've worked in Internet and Web standards for more than 20 years, having chaired a few different groups (including HTTP and QUIC), authoring many RFCs (including the most recent revision of HTTP), and also being a member of the W3C Technical Architecture Group and Internet Architecture Board.  I currently work for Fastly, a US-based Content Delivery Network, and I'm also working on a Graduate Diploma in Communications Law at Melbourne Law School.
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> I'm excited about combining architecturally sound, open specifications with the potential for a legal mandate from regulators -- while there are many risks, there are also opportunities to improve the Internet in ways that haven't been possible to date.
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> I'm located in Melbourne, Australia.
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> Cheers,
>
>
> P.S. If you haven't seen the group home page, please take a look at: https://interop-remedies-cg.github.io
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> --
> Mark Nottingham   https://www.mnot.net/
>
>

Received on Thursday, 2 December 2021 23:34:36 UTC