Re: [Ietf-and-github] Adam Roach's No Objection on draft-ietf-git-using-github-05: (with COMMENT)

[Martin Thomson <[e-mail]>]

On Thu, Mar 12, 2020, at 11:48, Adam Roach via Datatracker wrote:
>    GitHub is a service operated at https://github.com/
>    (https://github.com/).
> 
> The parenthetical seems unnecessary.

That's a consequence of attempting to turn the link into a link.  In HTML, this looks fine and having a link is good.  This is the result of the xml2rfc text rendering.  I'm opening an issue.
 
A couple of your comments are addressed already in https://github.com/ietf-gitwg/using-github/pull/43
 
> Section 3.2:
>    Repositories for private documents MAY
>    be kept private, but only where there is a specific reason for doing
>    so.
> 
> This seems really odd, completely undetectable/unenforceable, and actually
> harmful. It is common practice for editors to just keep their source local and
> only submit the output of such source to the i-d repository; and that’s just
> fine. This seems to say that such users are effectively forbidden to have their
> source equally private but also effectively backed-up and revision-controlled
> by one specific online service. It seems strictly better to allow and even
> encourage this, to prevent a loss of data.

I might revise this statement.  As you say, it's meaningless.  But the admonition about operating in secret is probably worth retaining.  How about: https://github.com/ietf-gitwg/using-github/pull/49