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Re: [dispatch] Demonstration of Implementer Support for Multibase and Multihash at IETF (was: Re: Finding a home for Multibase and Multihash)

Ross Finlayson <finlayson@live555.com> Mon, 03 April 2023 17:34 UTC

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> On Apr 4, 2023, at 12:02 AM, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com> wrote:
> 
> "discussion in Github should not be seen as final" is starting to
> feel like it's at the cusp of being an antiquated idea. If we look at
> the volume of where conversations are happening now at places like
> W3C... the vast majority is done via Github issue trackers, Slack, and
> Signal channels.
> 
> Sadly, these are proprietary tools

This is more significant than just being “sad”.  (Not to mention the fact that there is more than one of these tools, and they don’t appear to be interoperable.)

Until this gets fixed (does anyone know of a standards organization that could do this? :-), having a mailing list acting as ’the truth’ remains a necessity.

	Ross.

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