A request for help - an idea called carbon.txt

Hey folks,

Following on from my previous post about this mailing list being a useful
shared space for talkig about specs, conventions or recommendations, I
wanted to ask for some feedback on this idea here.

*Carbon.txt - robots.txt for carbon*

I'm proposing something a bit like robots.txt, but for carbon emissions,
which I've been chatting Rene and AJ  at The Green Web Foundation while I'm
funded to work with them by the German Prototype Fund.

The general idea is to have some kind of convention for dclaring how the
digital services we have might be powered, by making the supply chain more
explicit, that is:

   - machine and human readable
   - refers to carbon emissions being avoided in an independently
   verifiable manner
   - easy for anyone to implement, or automate (in CI, or hosting platforms)
   - doesn't require people to be 100% green to start with


I've written a bit more below, as I think there's a mechanism for borrowing
ideas from the world of SSL, DNS and carbon trading markets to achieve
this, but this is super early, and I'm trying to see if the idea is even
*intelligible* to you folks before I speak to others.

The rough plan for how it might work is here:

https://github.com/thegreenwebfoundation/carbon.txt

And an introductory post is here:

https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/news/trying-an-idea-carbon-txt/

Anyway - I'd really, *really* like to hear what you might need to make this
a thing that is easy to understand and implement as a website builder.

Let me know, and have a good week,

Thanks

Chris



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