Since this re-surfaced from the second chance queue, this is a good place to say they just announced the first and very important steps to an independent PLC directory: <a href="https://martianbase.net/@mackuba/116314877708269740" rel="nofollow">https://martianbase.net/@mackuba/116314877708269740</a><p>From the alt text:<p>Initial board<p>- Bryan Newbold - Bluesky, protocol engineer<p>- Richard Barnes - Co-founder Let's Encrypt, Co-author MLS, ACME, HPKE, etc<p>- Wendy Seltzer - Internet Lawyer & open standards advocate<p>- Filippo Valsorda - Cryptographer, Go cryptography maintainer, transparency log aficionado<p>- Thyla van der Merwe - Cryptographer, security & privacy engineer at Google<p>This is on top of the IETF working group news: <a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/atp/about/" rel="nofollow">https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/atp/about/</a>