Every so often I’m reminded of how tricky Wikipedia is — especially for current events. It’s not magically unbiased. Inventing authoritative sources of truth with well timed edits for real world persuasive power is the oldest working trick in the book.

Caribou crossing the Susitna River during autumn, Alaska (© Tim Plowden/Alamy)

Aerial view of the Amazon River in Brazil (© Curioso.Photography/Shutterstock)

Milky Way over Acadia National Park, Maine (© Harry Collins/Getty Images)

This document defines an L2VPN Network Model (L2NM) that can be used to manage the provisioning of Layer 2 Virtual Private Network (L2VPN)

Golden jellyfish in Jellyfish Lake on the island of Eil Malk, Palau (© Nature Picture Library/Alamy)

This document describes a mechanism that, through the use of opportunistic Transport Layer Security (TLS), enables encryption of

IETF Hackathons encourage the IETF community to collaborate on running code related to existing and evolving Internet standards.

The aspen canopy along the Last Dollar Road near Telluride, Colorado (© Grant Ordelheide/Tandem Stills + Motion)

Words and identifiers are at most substitutes for intangibles that cannot be expressed. The power of naming matters more than the name itself.

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“The name that can be named is not the eternal name.”

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet.”