On Fri, Sep 17, 2021 at 07:14:11AM -0400, James Bottomley wrote: > > I would caution that Google docs aren't universally accessible. China > > blocks access to many Google resources, and now Russia purportedly > > does the same. Perhaps a similar effect can be reached with a git > > repository with limited commit access? At least then commits can be > > attested to individual authors. > > In days of old, when knights were bold and cloud silos weren't > invented, we had an ancient magic handed down by the old gods who spoke > non type safe languages. They called it wiki and etherpad ... could we > make use of such tools today without committing heresy against our > cloud overlords? You mean, like https://pad.kernel.org ? :) However, a large part of why I was suggesting a git repo is because it is automatically redistributable, clonable, and verifiable using builtin git tools. We have end-to-end attestation with git, but we don't have it with etherpad or a wiki. If the goal is to use a document that solicits acks and other input across subsystems, then having a tamper-evident backend may be important. -K
