Re: adapting IETF in light of github and similar tools

[Lloyd W <lloyd.wood=40yahoo.co.uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 20 Apr 2021, at 12:59, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Rather than get

rough consensus on the change, whoever controls the repository

effectively wins.  

And if you're the least bit concerned about anti-trust laws, you would
want to be well away from that control point.

Microsoft, famed for antitrust, controls GitHub.

That's a fairly strong
argument for why you need open standards as well as open source.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

Lloyd Wood

lloyd.wood@xxxxxxxxxxx