Re: Old directions in social media.

["Kurt Andersen (IETF)" <[e-mail]>]

On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 9:40 AM Phillip Hallam-Baker <[e-mail]>
wrote:

>
> It should be possible to scan through a document and annotate individual
> paragraphs with comments tagged with lightweight semantics such as:
>
> agree
> disagree
> nit [typographic issues, spelling etc.]
> vocabulary [use/choice of defined terms]
> requirement
> use-case
> interop
>
> The open meeting vocabulary was limited to six moves. It is possible that
> we could make use of a slightly larger vocabulary. But it is probably best
> to start out constrained and add slowly.
>
> The process part comes in when an editor is creating a new version of the
> document. We might assign an editor a separate set of moves:
>
> accept
> reject
> assign-issue
>
> So if I am editing a document and someone has given me a list of typos, I
> just go through and clear them. But some comments might well require more
> discussion. And we can write rules that identify those comments.
>

Having worked with a hybrid of git and Google docs to develop a recent RFC,
I'd suggest that there are at least two additional key functions:
* replace [text range] with [new text] (potentially with a coordinated
change several places in the document)
* free text comment

--Kurt