Re: Github, sanctions, and the IETF

Donald Eastlake <d3e3e3@gmail.com> Wed, 10 August 2022 22:03 UTC

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From: Donald Eastlake <d3e3e3@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2022 18:03:14 -0400
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Subject: Re: Github, sanctions, and the IETF
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I agree with Lloyd.

Thanks,
Donald
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On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 5:29 PM Lloyd W
<lloyd.wood=40yahoo.co.uk@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote:
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> not formally, since the outputs of the git wg were informational.
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> https://datatracker.ietf.org/group/git/documents/
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> as revision control systems go, git seems to me to be spectacularly ill-suited to the IETF and editing of text documents, rather than for the kernel source tree it was designed for.
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> git is in fashion, and fashions pass.
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> Lloyd Wood
> lloyd.wood@yahoo.co.uk
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> On 11 Aug 2022, at 04:58, Fernando Gont <fernando@gont.com.ar> wrote:
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> Hi, All,
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> Since we seem to have formally embraced Github, this might be of interest: https://cryptobriefing.com/circle-github-comply-with-tornado-cash-sanctions/
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> P.S.: No, I don't have a specific proposal. -- although nothing would prevent us from e.g. running gitlab ourselves, I guess -- still, not sure the extent to which we'd be relieved of the same issues (as previously discussed in other threads).
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> Thanks,
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> Fernando Gont
> e-mail: fernando@gont.com.ar
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