In 2020, we saw the world change in ways that no one could have anticipated. Because of this, like so many other organizations, the Internet Society had to assess its current and future plans and evaluate the resources available. As a result, some changes have been made to our activities for the upcoming year. Moving into 2021, we will no longer focus on Open Standards Everywhere (OSE) as a standalone project. We still deeply believe that open Internet standards standards are the cornerstone of the Internet’s success and are the building blocks that enable interoperability, compatibility and consistency around the world. So we will continue to promote and defend this concept through our other projects, initiatives and activities. The OSE documentation for web servers will remain available and will continue to be updated.
For the Internet to remain open, globally-connected, trustworthy, and secure, we believe that the networks and servers that make up the Internet need to be based on the latest and most secure standards being developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). A new focus for the Internet Society in 2020, the main goal of our OSE work was to help people operating different kinds of servers to see the value in using the latest open Internet standards and also understand how to deploy those standards in their own environments with the overall aim of building a bigger, stronger and more secure Internet.
Making Web Servers Faster and More Secure
Our OSE work has been focused on web servers. Many web server administrators might want to support the latest open standards and protocols, but they don’t know how, and don’t necessarily have the time to figure it out. Website administrators may not be aware of the latest open standards, or may not know these standards could help improve security, speed and availability.
