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Apple and Google have teamed up to work on a draft industry-wide specification via the IETF that's designed to tackle safety risks and alert users when they are being tracked without their knowledge or permission using devices such as AirTags.

The new leader of the Debian GNU/Linux project says one thing that is holding back the project is the length of time it takes to take decisions, with developers often getting frustrated with the tools and processes that are used.

The Internet Engineering Task Force has moved its 2018 meeting from San Francisco to Montreal due to fears that the travel bans introduced in the US may make it impossible for overseas members to attend.

Ericsson has launched what its says is the first WebRTC enabled browser for mobile devices, enabling application developers to incorporate voice and video communications into their browser based mobile applications.

Five Internet standards bodies - the IEEE, Internet Architecture Board (IAB), Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Internet Society and World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) - have joined force to push other standardisations bodies to adopt a new paradigm for global, open standards based on "the effective and efficient standardization processes that have made the Internet and Web the premiere platforms for innovation and borderless commerce."

The ITU has fired a second salvo in its war of words against the IETF over their split on standards for operation and management of MPLS networks, laying the blame squarely on the IETF.

The International Telecommunication Union (IT) has hit back at claims from the Internet Society (ISOC) that its decision to split from the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) on MPLS standards will jeopardise the integrity of the Internet.

The Internet Engineering Taskforce (IETF) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) have decided to go their separate ways in the development of standards for multiprotocol label switching (MPLS): a move that the IETF warns could jeopardise the future interoperability of the Internet.