> On Jan 28, 2016, at 9:02 AM, Bob Hinden <bob.hinden@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > To say this another way, using github (or other collaboration tools) is great for authors or a design team to work together to develop an Internet draft. I do this myself. I think the dividing line is that drafts should continue to be submitted via the datatracker as they are now and working groups be using the datatracker to do their work. I would be very concerned if working groups started to do their work outside of the datatracker. Agreed. It’s also worth noting that any addition to a document - made in a ‘shared document repository’ that's available to the working group as a whole - is quite clearly an “IETF Contribution” as defined by RFC 3979. We need to be sure that all such edits - including any subsequent deletions or modifications of added text - will get recorded in an ‘audit trail’, and can be made available in response to a subpoena. There are people out there who think that I’m “stuck in the '90s” (yes, people’s IETF-related postings to social media are publicly-searchable; you live by the sword, you die by the sword :-), but there are real dangers if we start allowing collaborative work within IETF working groups to be conducted using third-party services. Ross.