NLnet; Webinar: The GNU Name System and the road to publishing an RFC

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In november 2023 the GNS was published as <a href="https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9498.html">RFC 9498</a>. Martin Schanzenbach, Christian Grothoff and Bernd Fix are the authors of the RFC. In this webinar Martin and Bernd will give an explanation of GNS and talk about how the process of getting a specification published as an RFC work.</p> <p>The third speaker, Stephen Farrell co-founder of <a href="https://tolerantnetworks.com/">Tolerant Networks</a>, will talk about getting <a href="#advice">advice with standardisation processes</a>. Tolerant Networks offers NGI grantees support with standardisation and Stephen will explain what to expect from such support. The webinar concludes with a Q&A with all three speakers.</p> <div class="thumbright"> <figure><img src="/image/people/Martin-Schanzenbach.jpg" alt="Portrait of Martin SChanzenbach." /><figcaption>Martin Schanzenbach</figcaption> </figure> </div> <h3>About Martin Schanzenbach</h3> <p>Dr. Martin Schanzenbach received his PhD from the Technical University of Munich in 2022. He is currently heading the research group "Applied Privacy Technologies" at the <a href="https://www.aisec.fraunhofer.de/en.html"> Fraunhofer Institute for Applied and Integrated Security (AISEC)</a>. The research group and its members work on privacy engineering, homomorphic encryption and functional encryption. His direct areas of research include privacy-enhancing technologies and secure distributed systems. In the context of various research activities and projects he is researching self-sovereign identity systems, peer-to-peer technologies and secure name systems. He is one of the authors and designers of the GNU Name System (RFC 9498).</p> <div class="thumbright"> <figure><img src="/image/people/Bernd_Fix.png" alt="Bernd Fix, sitting on the ground, mouse cables weaved through his fingers with nine mice hanging from them." /><figcaption>Bernd Fix</figcaption> </figure> </div> <h3>About Bernd Fix</h3> <p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernd_Fix">Bernd Fix</a> is a hacker veteran of the <a href="https://www.ccc.de/en/">Chaos Computer Club</a> in Germany and founding board member of the <a href="https://www.wauland.de/en/">Wau Holland Foundation</a>. After working in the field of computer security for over two decades, his current work focuses on digital disobedience, freedom of information, informational self-determination and the impact of technology on the development of our society. He is one of the authors of RFC 9498.</p> <div class="thumbright"> <figure><img src="/image/Stephen-Farrel-340h.jpg" alt="Portrait picture of Stephen Farrell." /><figcaption>Stephen Farrell</figcaption> </figure> </div> <h3>About Stephen Farrell</h3> <p>Dr. <a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/person/stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie">Stephen Farrell</a> is co-founder of Tolerant Networks and a <a href="https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Stephen.Farrell/">research fellow</a> in the Distributed Systems Group of the School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College Dublin. At Trinity College Stephen teaches and researches on security and delay/disruption-tolerant networking (DTN). In 2006 he co-authored the first book on the latter topic. Stephen has been involved in Internet standards for more than a decade and has been an IETF security area director for six years. Prior to returning to academia in 2002, Stephen had 15 years experience in industry, working for Siemens and Baltimore Technologies amongst others.</p> <h3 id="advice">NGI Zero support service: Standardisation advice by Tolerant Networks</h3> <p>NGI Zero offers <a href="/NGI0/services/">support services</a> to projects who are active in the Next Generation Internet initiative. <a href="https://tolerantnetworks.com/">Tolerant Networks</a> offers support with best practices on standardisation and provides custom advice on standardisation strategy. Open standards are an essential component of the openness of the internet. Dealing with standards setting organisations as a relative outsider can be a good lesson in humility though. Standards bodies often have meritocratic characteristics, and processes with very specific timing, meaning that newcomers can be at a disadvantage. Not every project may need to interface with a standards setting organisation, but for those that do Tolerant Networks provides guidance and mentoring throughout the process, and can help introduce projects to relevant stakeholders to collaborate and build alliances. This does not deliver guarantees on successfully reaching a standard, but it can significantly increase their chances.</p> <p><strong>About Tolerant Networks</strong> <br /> Tolerant Networks was founded in April 2010 by Stephen Farrell and Kerry Hartnett. The company was spun out of an EU FP7 funded project called N4C in which we used Delay Tolerant Networking (DTN) to enable Internet-like communications in very remote communities. It has successfully completed a range of projects in the area of DTN deployment, educational DTN projects and DTN usage for the European Space Agency. Tolerant Networks is a a Trinity College Dublin campus company.</p> <hr /> <p>The GNU Name System received funding from <a href="/discovery/">NGI0 Discovery</a>, and <a href="/entrust/">NGI0 Entrust </a>, two funds established by NLnet with financial support from the European Commission's <a href="https://www.ngi.eu/">Next Generation Internet programme</a>, under the aegis of DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement No 825322.</p> <div class="row"> <div class="col4"><a href="/NGI0/"><img class="img_mob_small" src="/image/logos/NGI0_tag.svg" alt="NGI Zero logo" /></a></div> <div class="col7"> <div class="terzijde"><a href="https://ec.europa.eu/info/departments/communications-networks-content-and-technology_en" class="blank"><img src="/image/logos/EC.svg" alt="Logo European Commission" class="flagright" /></a></div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col4 reorder"> <div class="part"> <h3>Search</h3> <form onsubmit="/js/searchbutton.js" method="get" accept-charset="UTF-8" action="/search/static.html" class="sitesearch"><input id="searsia-input" type="text" name="q" class="form-control" value="" autocomplete="off" /><label for="searsia-input"><span class="hide">Search</span></label><input type="submit" id="searsiasubmit" name="submit" value="Search" /><label for="searsiasubmit"><span class="hide">Submit search</span></label></form> </div> <div> <p class="box marge"> <h5>Currently open for proposals:</h5> </p> <ul class="pointer"> <li><a href="/commonsfund/">NGI0 Commons Fund</a></li> <li><a href="/taler/">NGI TALER</a></li> <li><a href="/mobifree/">NGI Mobifree</a></li> <li><a href="/fediversity/">NGI Fediversity</a></li> </ul> <div><a href="/foundation/jobs/regionalrepresentative.html" class="part part_link part_green"><img src="/image/git-merge-2.svg" width="40" height="40" alt="git merge icon" /> <h5 class="color_white">Job opening</h5> <font color="white">NGI Zero is looking for a Regional Representative.</font> </a></div> <div><a href="https://podcast.nlnet.nl/@NGIZero" class="part part_link part_blue"><img src="/image/ic_antenna_white.svg" width="40" height="40" alt="podcast logo, antenna with radio waves" /> <h5 class="color_white">Listen to our podcast</h5> <font color="white">Converstations with people building the Next Generation Internet</font> </a></div>  </div> <div class="part"> <h3>Events</h3> <p class="h-event"><a href="/events/20250201/FOSDEM/index.html"><span class="dt-start dt-end">2025-02-01</span> - <span class="p-name">Let's meet at FOSDEM 2025</span></a></p> <p class="h-event"><a href="/events/20241128/index.html"><span class="dt-start dt-end">2024-11-28</span> - <span class="p-name">Webinar: Ask Us For Help: Practical Support for NGI Beneficiaries</span></a></p> <p class="h-event"><a href="/events/20240502/index.html"><span class="dt-start dt-end">2024-05-02</span> - <span class="p-name">Tech talk with bunnie on IRIS: an open hardware project to verify chips</span></a></p> <ul class="pointer"> <li><a href="/webinars">Upcoming webinars & recordings</a></li> <li><a href="/events">Event archive</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="part"> <h3>News</h3> <p><a href="/news/2024/20241121-CfP-Fosdem.html">Call for Participation: Devroom on FOSS Funding at FOSDEM</a> 2024-11-21</p> <p><a href="/news/2024/20241111-NGI-Taler-grants.html">NGI TALER Grants for Tryton and Interledger Interoperability </a> 2024-11-11</p> <p><a href="/news/2024/20241111-NGI-Mobifree-grants.html">NGI Mobifree Grants Awarded for Fair Mobile Software</a> 2024-11-11</p> <p><a href="/news/2024/20241015-BlueHatsPrize4.html">Monitoring Plugins wins BlueHats Prize for maintainers</a> 2024-10-15</p> <p><a href="/news/2024/20241014-announcing-CommonsFund-call.html">NGI0 Commons Fund Supports 32 Projects Building the Public Internet</a> 2024-10-14</p> <ul class="pointer"> <li><a href="/news">More news</a></li> </ul> </div> <div><a href="/help" class="part part_link part_green"><img src="/image/ic_hand.svg" alt="" /><h5 class="color_white">Want to help?</h5>Help us by protecting open source and its users with 5 minutes of your time. </a></div> <div><a href="/donating/" class="part part_link part_blue"><img src="/image/ic_flower.svg" alt="icon of a flower" /><h5 class="color_white">Donate today</h5>Your donation can help grow the future! 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