Re: Should IETF stop using GitHub?

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> 29 juli 2019 kl. 18:12 skrev Michael StJohns <mstjohns@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> 
>> On 7/29/2019 11:58 AM, Stewart Bryant wrote:
>> 
>> This report suggests to me that the IETF should move its work off GitHub so that we own our own decision on who can and cannot take part in our work.
>> 
>> https://eandt.theiet.org/content/articles/2019/07/github-restrictions-introduced-to-comply-with-us-sanctions 
>> 
>> - Stewart
>> 
> I'm not the biggest fan of using Github in IETF work, but fair is fair.  Read the article.   The gist is that "commercial" accounts and private repositories associated with Crimea (Russian occupied Ukraine), Cuba, North Korea, Iran and Syria or their persons are restricted due to trade laws.   AFAICT from the article, there is no restriction on these people using public repositories and contributing to open source activities such as the IETF.
> 
> So let's not go non-linear here.
> 
> 
> More complete info is here - https://twitter.com/natfriedman?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1155311122137804801&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Feandt.theiet.org%2Fcontent%2Farticles%2F2019%2F07%2Fgithub-restrictions-introduced-to-comply-with-us-sanctions%2F
> 
> Mike
> 

fwiw I read it the same way & agree.




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