[ripe-list] Green tech news for March: Environmental Sustainability & Internet Governance, academia, protocols, research, standards, regulations...

Dear RIPE Community,

here are some "green tech" news that might interest you:

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New IETF mailing list: green-bof at ietf.org

Archive: https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/green-bof/
To subscribe: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/green-bof

Purpose: This short-term mailing list is for BoF preparation and charter 
related  discussions for holding a WG forming BoF, with the idea of 
forming a Green networking WG.

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I gave an invited presentation: "Internet Governance and Climate Action" 
at "Traces of Power" student event at WdKA in Rotterdam, on 7 March 2024
https://www.ripe.net/about-us/press-centre/publications/presentations/2024/internet-governance-and-climate-action/

https://top.permacomputing.net

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Here is a recording of an online event  "AI & the Climate Crisis" on
Tuesday, 19 March 2024 from 18:30 to 20:00 (GMT)

https://goldsmiths.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=609824f6-5e69-4241-9bd4-b13a00d3d05b

Dr Dan McQuillan | Goldsmiths, University of London lead the discussion 
and was joined by:
* Boxi Wu - Oxford Internet Institute
https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/profiles/boxi-wu/
* Fieke Jansen - Critical Infrastructure Lab 
https://www.criticalinfralab.net/
* Sebastián Lehuedé - King's College London
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/sebastian-lehuede
* Patrick Brodie - University College Dublin
https://people.ucd.ie/patrick.brodie

Moderator is the author of the book "Resisting AI" :
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/resisting-ai

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French regulator ARCEP published 2024 report on “Achieving digital 
sustainability”:

English press release 
https://en.arcep.fr/news/press-releases/view/n/the-environement-210324.html
French press release 
https://www.arcep.fr/actualites/actualites-et-communiques/detail/n/numerique-040723.html

French webpage about the report 
https://www.arcep.fr/cartes-et-donnees/nos-publications-chiffrees/impact-environnemental/derniers-chiffres.html

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Upcoming events in April:


10-12. April, Berlin & online: "Democracy in Engineering Education: Do 
we need ethics or sustainability in engineering?"
https://www.tu.berlin/en/km/n-zertifikat/tins-d-education/democracy-in-engineering-education-sefi-spring-school-2024

16-17. April, online: "Workshop on Sustainable Computing"
https://edas.info/web/nsf-wscs24/

25-26. April, Munich: EcoCompute Conference https://www.eco-compute.io

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And, for your reading pleasure: new RFC was published recently: 
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9547

"Report from the IAB Workshop on Environmental Impact of Internet 
Applications and Systems, 2022"


Regards,
Vesna Manojlovic


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