[ripe-list] Internet operations & environmental sustainability: January links

Dear RIPE Community,

here is an overview of events, presentations & announcements about 
overlap of environmental sustainability and Internet operations / 
governance / standards:

1. Reporting back from from CCC / 37c3, December 2023
2. Announcing e-impact IETF online session, 15.-16. February
3. W3C plans for 2024

Regards,
Vesna

===in reverse order===

Seth Dobbs, CEO of Web Consortium just published their "key themes for 
the year", and stated:

	"I am looking forward to making sustainability
	a new key aspect and goal of web standards. "

https://www.w3.org/blog/2024/mapping-key-themes-for-the-year/

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On 15th & 16th of February, there will be an interim session of the IETF 
group for "Environmental Impacts of Internet Technology":

Schedule is here, although the page looks quite bare: 
https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/interim-2024-eimpact-01/session/eimpact

Everyone is welcome to join!

To get most of the discussions, it is recommended to join the mailing 
list in advance, and/or to check the archives: 
https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/e-impact/

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37th instance of CCC congress happened between Xmass & New year 2023; 
this year, Chaos Communication Congress had a track dedicated to 
"Sustainability & Climate Justice".

You can find the descriptions of talks here:
https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2023/fahrplan/events.html#sustainability%20&%20climate%20justice

and all the videos archived here: 
https://media.ccc.de/c/37c3/Sustainability%20&%20Climate%20Justice

Some are relevant for various RIPE Working groups, for example:
* Software Licensing For A Circular Economy
* Energy Consumption of Datacenters
* Blackbox Chemieindustrie (in German)

In adherence with their own mission, there were also Local Hubs for 
participating in the CCC, called "Chaos Everywhere".

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And this is an opportunity to "plug in" (pun intended) our own local 
hubs: the call for RIPE88 is open!

https://ripe88.ripe.net/attend/call-for-local-hubs/

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Vesna Manojlovic
-- 
Senior Community Builder, RIPE NCC
https://labs.ripe.net/author/becha/