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Re: A sad farewell

Larry Masinter <LMM@acm.org> Thu, 05 November 2020 23:08 UTC

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From: Larry Masinter <LMM@acm.org>
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2020 15:08:30 -0800
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Subject: Re: A sad farewell
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> unless you believe it should all move to github anyway and our "bespoke
tools" really don't matter that much.

There has been enormous progress in the last decade in the area of
collaborative tools for document creation and review.

While github isn't THE answer, the "bespoke tools" developed to support
legacy workflows really DON'T matter that much.
Google Docs, Dropbox, Microsoft Office, Acrobat, git.ietf.org might all be
options.

Right now, IETF is in the unenviable position of imposing a serious tax of
attention for people who don't care about text formats to make a
contribution.
It's a bad filter of ideas to only allow those who can deal with XML in
whichever is the version du jour.  The expeeriment in file format chage has
taken too long and the world has moved on.

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