When Internet exchange points (#IXPs) keep traffic local, costs fall while speed and reliability increase.

In 40 out of 50 countries we analyzed, the share of income needed to afford basic mobile broadband fell by more than 10% after receiving a grant from the Internet Society Foundation for IXP development or local peering ecosystem support. In several countries, the improvement is far larger, suggesting substantial shifts in affordability over time.

Read more: https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2026/05/local-infrastructure-lower-costs-how-peering-is-moving-the-needle-on-internet-affordability/

Travel hell. Got deboarded in LHR due to mechanical. They called us all back an hour later. As we were all milling around and chatting, I tried to be Mr Calm by saying “it could be worse”. Well, I was right. Storm rolled through, 20 flights cancelled. British Air hustled us out of the airport without letting us know what was going on. Two hours later I learn I am flying to Copenhagen tomorrow to get back to the US. Nothing can be done about it. It takes 2 more hours to find a hotel. 1 hour taxi queue. Get to the hotel only to learn the travel agent never hit “save” or whatever. Fortunately got another hotel 20 min walk away for 50% more. Got checked in at 23:30. Sky bar closes at 24:00. Ordered two gin and tonics, doubles.

The documents people have referenced for years as JSON Schema are labeled "work in-progress". They are drafts, literally "Internet-Draft".

Today, the IETF decided to start the process to fix that... to make JSON Schema a standard.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/jsonschema/about/

Anthropic is testing only making Claude Code available in their $100/month or higher plans.

Another sign that we’re hitting the Uber moment for AI tools and everyone’s stopping subsidizing tokens.

With data center capacity at a premium, they don’t need to attract more users. It’s monetization time

People want to learn about Meshtastic! We had a big turnout for NoVALUG’s April meeting, and we were rewarded with a great presentation. Thank you Lenley Ngo! (https://louisianamesh.org/)

The IETF Now Has an Open Source Team

The IESG, the steering group for the IETF, has created an IETF Open Source team. This gives open source communities an avenue to schedule sessions and create IETF mailing lists.

“Rough consensus and running code” has long been the unofficial motto of the IETF. While “running code” has traditionally referred to implementation experience, today a significant portion of that code is developed and maintained in open source communities. This reflects a deep-seated recognition that the Internet’s stability relies on the vital relationship between open source software and standardized protocols.

Having a little going away with an old boss and came up with the phrase:

"Changing jobs is just 'same fire, different dumpster.'"

How do i get a trademark on this.

LLMs seem to be confused by reverse dns domains and IP hierarchy.

I have hit peak 2026: using an AI agent to write specification files for other AI agents.

Happy Easter! With my Lenten YouTube fast over, I see that #opencode content has gone from “not much” to “discovered by tech influencers”.

@porkbun RDAP is a pretty silly address and I appreciate that.

You never see ‘.horse‘ in IOCs because it’s a $25 domain!

#dns

Allow me to introduce #MLL coding, the counterpart to #LLM vibe coding. MLL (Manual Labor of Love) coding allows one to spend more time doing a thing, and lets one get better, faster, and 100% understood code.

On plane #3 to home from IETF 125. I am exhausted. Shenzhen was nice. It is a clean, friendly city and very affordable.

IETF 125 in Shenzhen

I had an interesting conversation during the IETF hackathon with people getting heavily into coding with AI. To get AI to work for serious projects, they need to write down a lot of assumptions and other information, the observation being that they are now documenting things they should have written down for their junior engineers but didn't... but now that the AI needs this information, they are doing it.

Which, from an economic standpoint, is totally backwards assuming that a junior engineer costs a lot more than an AI.

Schools shouldn't be training centers for proprietary software.
https://www.korte.co/gyon
#Education #opensource

Adventures in Meshtastic

I’ve always wanted to play around with LoRa and Meshtastic to see what it can do. Thanks to a little prodding by @emacdona I bought a pair of cheap, Heltec kits.

I seriously have no idea what I am doing here, but managed to futz my way through flashing one of the devices. I let it run over night and woke up to 128 nodes discovered. Pretty interesting.

If you think that that orchestrated AIs creating Pull Requests is a problem, wait until they start trying to be LinkedIn influencers.

Phillip Hallam-Baker has defined the term "Superficial Intelligence" (SI), which better describes the artificial intelligence we are currently experiencing.

https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ietf/HuQyJJHCF0y9Lrr543WQah63MQs/