Universal Acceptance: The Standard to an Open, Inclusive and Compatible Internet

Arnt Gulbrandsen is Senior UA Technology Engineer at ICANN, which is to say, he manages no one, talks about universal acceptance to anyone who’ll listen and contributes code to make it happen. At the moment Arnt has pull requests outstanding for Firefox, the Python and Ruby standard libraries, and more. In the past, Arnt has written about ten RFCs about the DNS and email and worked as a contractor and in various startups, the most well-known probably being qt.io. You have probably used some of his code today. Arnt comes from Norway, now lives in Germany, and loves small metallic gadgets.