In 2014 Mozilla played a key role in the adoption of strong net neutrality rules in the United States. Access to the open Internet is critical for individuals and innovators.Our policy team and the Mozilla community tackle global issues, including through legislative and regulatory advocacy, in support of our mission, the open Internet, and individuals’ security, privacy, and control over their Web experience: In the post-Snowden era, we believe these are the sorts of technology advancements that the Internet needs to continue to be free and open. Together with other IETF members, Mozilla is spearheading an effort to build the world’s first end-to-end secure multi-user video conferencing system. Traditional videoconferencing systems allow the conferencing service to listen in to users calls.Recently, Mozilla worked with multiple stakeholders to build and design HTTP/2, a new revision of the protocol that powers the Web, designed for speed and security. Mozilla plays a key role in the design and development of Internet protocols.Firefox on Android was the first mobile Web browser to provide phishing and malware protection.Mozilla co-founded Let’s Encrypt, a new Certificate Authority which aims to bring security to every site on the Web.Over the last year, we have made major contributions to building a more secure online experience: Mozilla believes that individuals’ security and privacy on the Internet are fundamental and must not be treated as optional. More details on our ongoing Web platform work are available in this recent post from our VP of platform engineering and interim CTO, David Bryant. We’re very excited to ship it by end of year. To make it easier for more people to create virtual reality content, we’ve built A-Frame, a library of “building blocks for the VR Web” that enable developers to create responsive VR experiences with simple markup, no WebGL knowledge required.Using this language, we are also prototyping a next generation rendering engine called Servo. Recognizing that the future of the Web requires high performance and security, Mozilla is pioneering a new language called Rust that provides language features for safe parallelism while also being free of many of the security issues that have plagued existing browsers written in C++.Now we are working to develop Daala, a completely free next-generation video codec and have submitted it for standardization to the IETF. Mozilla worked with Cisco to develop OpenH264, which made the world’s most popular (but patented) video codec available for free to Open Source projects. Our influence is demonstrated by it being secure by default and that it allows for free and open implementations. Mozilla was a key player in creating the WebRTC specification that allows real time communication over the Web.More information on the growing adoption of Mozilla-pioneered asm.js is here. Unity, one of the world’s biggest game engines, this week made WebGL an officially supported platform. Mozilla pioneered WebGL, the Web’s standard for 3D graphics, and is currently working on WebGL2, which will bring improvements and additions to help developers create stunning visuals on the Web.Every major browser vendor supports asm.js optimizations and they have all announced that they will be supporting WebAssembly. By extending JavaScript’s capabilities with technologies such as asm.js, WebAssembly and SIMD, we have successfully demonstrated Mozilla’s important role as a steward of the Web.We believe that the Web benefits when every browser supports great, open technologies: Mozilla builds technologies that benefit the entire Web ecosystem. We measure our success not only by the adoption of our products, but also by our ability to increase the control people have in their online lives, our impact on the Web through our Web technologies, our contribution to standards and how we work to protect the Web that users want. We are more than just our consumer products. Today I would like to talk about the power of Mozilla.
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