[rfc-i] draft-flanagan-rfc-framework-02 composition tools

nico at cryptonector.com (Nico Williams) Mon, 10 November 2014 18:31 UTC

From: "nico at cryptonector.com"
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 12:31:38 -0600
Subject: [rfc-i] draft-flanagan-rfc-framework-02 composition tools
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On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 12:21 PM, Carsten Bormann <cabo at tzi.org> wrote:
> On 10 Nov 2014, at 08:04, Nico Williams <nico at cryptonector.com> wrote:
>>
>> I don't think open source makes for a good requirement
>
> Indeed, not by itself.  But there is a strong requirement for continued availability.
> (Think in decades here.)

Agreed.  But look, with XML this isn't a huge problem.  Worst case
scenario we're back to using $EDITOR (which most of us are used to),
and the XML tooling we have is open source and thus maintainable (plus
it's portable).  I'm assuming XML is the common element here.

Nico
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