Re: [kitten] Proposal for tracking document reviews and skipping WGLC

Given the necessary multitude of different username/password combinations I need to avoid duplicating passwords already, I don’t consider the need for yet another for an IETF wiki to be a serious impediment.

Agreed that *some* mailing list traffic is still necessary so the otherwise-uninvolved have a chance to weigh in.

> On Jul 6, 2016, at 5:54 PM, Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 11:58:08PM -0400, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
>> Does this proposal seem reasonable?
> 
> Yes.
> 
>> If this proposal moves forward, there is a question of where to host the
>> wiki page: two choices that came up so far are a github wiki or an
>> IETF-hosted trac wiki, but we are not tied to those two options.  My
> 
> I'm not a fan of the IETF trac.  I'm not a fan of the github issue
> tracker either, but,
> 
> a) github is very convenient,
> b) its wiki is nice,
> c) this can all be blended (optionally) with using git[hub] for version
>   control of each I-D,
> d) we can have an organization for the WG to be the umbrella for [a
>   subset of] the WG's documents that every participant who asks can be
>   made a member of.
> 
>> understanding is that either one would require an account tied to that
>> provider in order to edit (to avoid wiki spam), so there would be some
>> barrier to entry in either case.  However, perhaps more people already
>> have github accounts than IETF trac accounts, which lends some preference
> 
> It's also becoming common to use github for IETF work.  E.g., TLS 1.3.
> 
> I'd consider other VCS services built around git too.
> 
>> to github; indeed, other WGs are using github for document editing and
>> issue tracking already.  Regardless of where the wiki is hosted, a wiki
>> account would not be needed in order to participate in document review;
>> comments can always be sent to the mailing list and the chairs are able to
>> edit the wiki page on behalf of others.
> 
> Indeed, the mailing list must remain the ultimate consensus confirmation
> medium for now and the forseeable future.
> 
> Nico
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