Re: Welcome / introductions

Thanks Mark, and thanks to all who have gone before me, it's great to read
about your backgrounds and perspectives. Returning from the American
holiday, my name is Chris Riley, and I recently joined W3C as an individual
member for purposes of engaging with this process, after having been on the
margins of W3C working through colleagues during my 7 years running global
public policy for Mozilla (and other pathways prior to that).

These days, I work with the nonprofit Brave New Software Project (not
affiliated with Brave Software the browser company) and wearing that hat
I'm developing a new concept for a nonprofit run tech-for-good incubator;
I'm also a resident senior fellow for internet governance at the R Street
Institute where I engage in more traditional think tank policy work. I've
spent my career at the intersection of technology/law/governance issues,
and have written and spoken extensively over the past few years on
interoperability (e.g. from 2017
<https://medium.com/@mchrisriley/competition-through-interoperability-3ed34a5c55f1>
to my most recent piece this summer in CPI
<https://www.competitionpolicyinternational.com/interoperability-as-a-lens-onto-regulatory-paradigms/>
[paywalled, but I can share a copy with individuals if interested]). As a
long-time supporter of interoperability intervention by government actors
who nevertheless understands the many pitfalls along that route, I'm eager
to engage with this group to see what we can develop that complements the
current interest by regulators.

I call home in the objectively suboptimal Pacific Time Zone (based in a SF
Bay Area suburb); I do make early hours available (e.g. 5:30/6am) so
friends in Europe in particular don't constantly have to sacrifice their
evenings.

Cheers,
Chris

On Tue, Nov 23, 2021 at 9:50 PM Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> wrote:

> Hello everyone. Welcome to the Community Group!
>
> 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.
>
> However, it'd first be good to get to know each other.  Please send an
> e-mail introducing yourself, including:
>
> * 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)
>
> I'll start below.
>
> ---
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> I'm located in Melbourne, Australia.
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> P.S. If you haven't seen the group home page, please take a look at:
> https://interop-remedies-cg.github.io
>
> --
> Mark Nottingham   https://www.mnot.net/
>
>
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