Notices by Dan York (danyork@mastodon.social)

Just crossed the 45th parallel on my way to #ICANN66 in Montreal - “Midpoint Equator to North Pole”

"The internet is commonly described as a cloud. In reality, it’s a series of wet, fragile tubes, and Google is about to own an alarming number of them. The numbers speak for themselves; Google will own 10,433 miles of submarine cables internationally when the Curie cable is completed later this year. The total shoots up to 63,605 miles when you include cables it owns in consortium with Facebook, Microsoft, and Amazon." - https://venturebeat.com/2019/04/06/google-and-other-tech-giants-are-quietly-buying-up-the-most-important-part-of-the-internet/ #InternetAccess

"When Let’s Encrypt launched in 2014, less than 30% of web requests were encrypted with HTTPS. Today, that number is nearly 80%. The publication of ACME as an IETF RFC and its adoption by more and more CAs will help bring us closer to closer to ensuring all communications on the Internet are confidential and authentic.” Read more: https://www.ietf.org/blog/acme/

Want to help ensure the Internet remains open, globally-connected, secure, trustworthy, and available for everyone? We’re hiring at the Internet Society for a range of positions: https://www.internetsociety.org/careers/

“Decentralize It” - Mozilla’s IRL Podcast interviews @Gargron about Mastodon, and others about Graphite docs, Civil, Maidsafe and others about #decentralization - https://irlpodcast.org/season4/episode6/

Future Thinking: Alissa Cooper on the Technical Impact of Internet #Consolidation - https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2019/02/future-thinking-alissa-cooper-technical-impact-internet-consolidation/

Who are the people/accounts you like to follow for thoughts about the future of the Internet?

(Looking to update some of my lists… could be people here on Mastodon, or on bird site, or on their own blogs/sites)

@dansup Thank you for paying so much attention to helping users. The user experience is so critical to success.