For the second time in a week I found a reference to '6G' in a policy document.

I hope people start to understand that 5G is mostly a marketing concept to sell you stuff you do not need.

5G is a ploy by telcos and manufacturers to increase network control and sell equipment.
5G is not one thing, but a set of standards and technologies that have been developed in a closed industry body, namely the #3GPP. Without any democratic oversight.

We do not understand the full consequences the roll out 5G will have to geographies or Internet architecture.
We also do not understand how the implementation of 5G will shift power balances between network operators and content providers. But I can tell you one thing, in the development the 5G standards, human rights or the public interest were not a criterion.
This very much feels like a 'return of the telcos', but the reality is that they never really left. So perhaps it is just another nail in the coffin of the distributed and end-to-end Internet.

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Last days I have been researching the European draft law on artificial intelligence. I am not an expert on AI, but I do know a thing or two about standards, and standard-setting features prominently in this act!
What the European Commission proposes is that standards will be created for AI by European Standards Organisations. AI implementations that are compliant with the standards are legal in the EU.
There are only three European Standards Organisations, namely CEN, CENELEC, and ETSI. AI standards-setting would probably take place within CEN/CENELEC's Joint Technical Committee (JTC) 21 ‘Artificial Intelligence’.
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Feb 17, 2022
Procrastination is a capitalist frame we should overcome.

Just write when it works. Increasing productivity is not the solution to our problems.
We need to produce less and consume less.

We are destroying ourselves and our planet just to live up to a market logic that no one fully comprehends.
Also, stop comparing yourself to others. It simply does not help anyone.

Life is not a competition. If we need anything, it is more collaboration, compassion, and solidarity.
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Happy to announce my dissertation is available online:

Wired Norms - Inscription, resistance, and subversion in the governance of the Internet infrastructure

dare.uva.nl/search?identif…
In this work, I examine the role of norms in the governance of the Internet infrastructure.

Based on extensive qualitative and quantitative analysis of different Internet governance bodies, namely @ICANN, @ietf, and @ripencc, I developed a theory.
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Another new draft in response to the discussion of the removal of racist language in the IETF.

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The draft asserts that this would be to the benefit of the Internet community.

It also continues to state that removing racist language might be too much work, and would not really contribute much. It's more important to not disrupt the current ways of working. Image
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When @MalloryKnodel and I started this work, we thought removing racist language would be kind of a no-brainer.
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Am not sure why one needs a souvereignty politics to develop a European normative technological system.

Influential normative systems are aimed a norm setting and dissemination, not isolation.
I think a European normative technical system should seek to leverage the human right to science and with that overcome the patents and copyrights of the infrastructure of the information society.
This would leverage the knowledge production of universities, and re-involve public research institutions with the development of the Internet as public utility.
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Most relevant and interesting changes in the Internet infrastructure happen outside of Internet governance and standards bodies.

Internet governance institutions facilitate interconnection and interoperation between transnational corporations, norm contestation happens outside.
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Because of the consensus model, existing interests in the current ordering, and backward compatibility, there is a significant amount of stasis.
I think that governance bodies should engage with value contestation, but this is not in the primary interests of transnational corporations.

Since corporations are structurally the most significantly represented group in every governance body, this change is unlikely to happen
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