Re: IANA Update: Project to convert registries to XML

Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> Mon, 21 July 2008 18:47 UTC

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From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
To: James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com>
Subject: Re: IANA Update: Project to convert registries to XML
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On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 02:31:18PM -0400,
 James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com> wrote 
 a message of 20 lines which said:

> But there still must be an easy and efficient way to mirror the
> whole repository.

I fully agree.

> or -- even better -- publish it via a distributed revision control
> system such as git, mercurial or bzr.

Why a dVCS? Any VCS would make it, and Subversion, for instance, would
be a good choice. If we use a dVCS, I vote for darcs.
 
> The ability to have a full, local, offline mirror is /important/.

+1
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