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IETF 89 Videos

24 Mar 2014

I wanted to share two excellent videos in this post.

In the first one Cullen Jennings talks about WebRTC technology:

In the second one Stephen Farrell talks about efforts around strengthening the Internet against pervasive monitoring:

There is also a shorter video version of my original blog post that summarised IETF-89.

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UN Report Calls for New Era for Digital Governance in which Tech Standards Respect Human Rights

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