> The thing is, there is an extremely small number of people who have the privilege and power to change things, because they're in the room and we're not.
Which rooms? In a lot of cases the situation is that you didn't bother to show up. Not always, but probably more often than you realise.
The IETF Working Group where TLS 1.3 was designed for example is just an IETF activity. You can literally just do that, it's actually probably harder to participate in Hacker News.
The "Root Trust Stores" are notionally controlled by a handful of tech businesses. Google, Apple, Microsoft. But, wait, Mozilla also controls one of these "Root Trust Stores" for Firefox and in practice for the Free Unix systems and most Free Software, and what do you know, since they decide behind closed doors we don't know how Google, Apple and Microsoft decide what to do - maybe they each have a thousand smart people deciding - but it sure does seem like they watch what Mozilla does and largely do the same thing. And how does Mozilla decide? An entirely public discussion m.d.s.policy. You could participate in that discussion today.
Which rooms? In a lot of cases the situation is that you didn't bother to show up. Not always, but probably more often than you realise.
The IETF Working Group where TLS 1.3 was designed for example is just an IETF activity. You can literally just do that, it's actually probably harder to participate in Hacker News.
The "Root Trust Stores" are notionally controlled by a handful of tech businesses. Google, Apple, Microsoft. But, wait, Mozilla also controls one of these "Root Trust Stores" for Firefox and in practice for the Free Unix systems and most Free Software, and what do you know, since they decide behind closed doors we don't know how Google, Apple and Microsoft decide what to do - maybe they each have a thousand smart people deciding - but it sure does seem like they watch what Mozilla does and largely do the same thing. And how does Mozilla decide? An entirely public discussion m.d.s.policy. You could participate in that discussion today.