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Re: adapting IETF in light of github and similar tools

Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> Tue, 20 April 2021 16:38 UTC

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Subject: Re: adapting IETF in light of github and similar tools
To: John Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
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From: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
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John Levine wrote on 20/04/2021 17:08:
> There are certainly reasons to worry about depending on an unpaid third party but
> MS subverting Github is rather low on my list of concerns.

in addition to which, any claim of GH capture risk can be averted with a 
surprisingly low overhead "git clone" operation.

Nick

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