W3C and IETF coordination
This is the third of a series of posts about my personal priorities for Web standards, and the relationship to the W3C TAG. Internet Applications = Web Applications For better or worse, the Web is...
View ArticleReinventing the W3C TAG
This is the fourth in a series of blog posts about my personal priorities for Web standards and the W3C TAG, as part of the ongoing TAG election. The Mission of the W3C TAG has three aspects: to...
View ArticleStandardizing JSON
Update 4/2/2013: in an email to the IETF JSON mailing list, Barry Leiba (Applications Area director in IETF) noted that discussions had started with ECMA and ECMA TC 39 to reach agreement on where JSON...
View ArticleSafe and Secure Internet
The Orlando IETF meeting was sponsored by Comcast/NBC Universal. IETF sponsors get to give a talk on Thursday afternoon of IETF week, and the talk was a panel, "A Safe, Secure, Scalable Internet". What...
View ArticleLinking and the Law
Ashok Malhotra and I (with help from a few friends) wrote a short blog post "Linking and the Law" as a follow-on of the W3C TAG note Publishing and Linking on the Web (which Ashok and I helped with...
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HTTP meeting in Hamburg
I was going to do a trip report about the HTTPbis meeting August 5-7 at the Adobe Hamburg office, but wound up writing up a longer essay about HTTP/2.0 (which I will post soon, promise.) So, to post...
View ArticleWhy HTTP/2.0? A Perspective
When setting up for the HTTP meeting in Hamburg, I was asked, reasonably enough, what the group is doing, why it was important, and my prognosis for its success. It was hard to explain, so I thought...
View ArticleHTTP/2.0 worries
I tried to explain HTTP/2.0 in my previous post. This post notes some nagging worries about HTTP/2.0 going forward. Maybe these are nonsense, but ... tell me why I'm wrong .... Faster is better, but...
View ArticleOn blogging, tweeting, facebooking, emailing
I wanted to try all the social media, just to keep an understanding of how things really work, I say. And my curiosity satisfied, I 'get' blogging, tweeting, facebook posting, linking in, although I...
View ArticleThe URL mess
(updated 9/8/14) One of the main inventions of the Web was the URL. And I've gotten stuck trying to help fix up the standards so that they actually work. The standards around URLs, though, have...
View ArticleThe multipart/form-data mess
OK, this is only a tiny mess, in comparison with the URL mess, and I have more hope for this one. Way back when (1995), I spec'ed a way of doing "file upload" in RFC1867. I got into this because some...
View ArticleLiving Standards: "Who Needs IANA?"
I'm reading about two tussles, which seem completely disconnected, although they are about the same thing, and I'm puzzled why there isn't a connection. This is about the IANA protocol parameter...
View ArticleAmbiguity, Semantic web, speech acts, truth and beauty
(I think this post is pretty academic for the web dev crowd, oh well) When talking about URLs and URNs or semantic web or linked data, I keep on returning to a topic. Carl Hewitt gave me a paper about...
View ArticleBirthday greetings, Packed committees, community, standards
Today is my birthday. I woke to find many birthday greetings on Facebook, and more roll in throughout the day. It's hard to admit how pleasing it is, embarrassing. I haven't asked for birthday...
View ArticleIETF "Security Considerations" and PDF
One of the things I've been doing lately is trying to dampen some of the misconceptions and misdirections concerning the Portable Document Format (PDF). I'm not sure why, except people seem to forget...
View ArticleOpen Data and Open Documents: Framework
I moved this post to Google docs for comment and collaboration. But see email thread too.
View ArticleMea Culpa
I hate Twitter. It amplifies the emotional content of what should be a rational discussion. I was dismayed to see a twitterstorm of complaints about the ODI report on PDF and data. I'm especially...
View ArticleGoing Bionic
I hadn't talked about it publicly, but it's pretty obvious now if you see me in person: my hands (often) shake, my foot (often) drags. I have Parkinson's disease -- first diagnosed 12 years ago, its a...
View ArticleMy procedure
"STEREOTACTIC IMAGE GUIDED IMPLANTATION OF BILATERAL GPi DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION ELECTRODES WITH VOLUMETRIC ANALYSIS USING MAZOR ROBOT AND IMPLANTATION OF RIGHT INFRACLAVICULAR PULSE GENERATOR" was on...
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Debugging my brain
Today was my fifth session with Dr. Nengchun Huang trying to adjust the signals going to my brain to improve my Parkinson's symptoms. I've been doing this every two weeks. Each session has lasted an...
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