Stephen, I don't think what you're complaining about can be attributed to GitHub. Tools are just tools, how they're used is what's relevant (i.e., this could just as easily happen over e-mail).
Cheers, > On 28 Oct 2020, at 7:31 am, Stephen Farrell <stephen.farr...@cs.tcd.ie> wrote: > > > Hiya, > > The latest ECH draft from Oct 16 says "ECH uses draft-05 of > HPKE for public key encryption." > > The latest HPKE draft (-06) from Oct 23 has a few minor > incompatible changes (for good but relatively trivial > reasons). > > So for interop ECH apparently requires use of an outdated > I-D, despite the one week difference in publishing and > a common co-author. > > It seems a bit mad that all that githubbery results in > such a lack of co-ordination in two closely related > specs. > > Anyway, I can manage to handle both HPKE-05 and > HPKE-06 but this seems like yet another case where > there is too much githubbery going on with the result > that two closely linked drafts with a common co-author > end up out of whack despite being issued within a week > of one another. > > That and the velocity of discussion and changes on > github are a major disincentive (for me) for implementing > ECH. I simply do not have the cycles to keep up with it > as it has been happening these last months. If that were > the goal of the authors and those endlessly commenting on > github (and I do not believe it is), then they would be > close to reaching that goal. > > Can we not please freeze this stuff for at least long > enough to get implementations done and somewhat tested? > > Frankly, I expect my plea here to be more or less ignored > just as my previous entreaties were. I decided to send > it anyway on the basis that the perhaps what seems like > an obvious failure of the current approach (ECH can't > interop unless you use an outdated I-D for HPKE) might > show that all this apparent high velocity discussion on > github is not as effetcive as claimed (in at least this > case). > > Thanks, > Stephen. > > _______________________________________________ > TLS mailing list > TLS@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/tls -- Mark Nottingham https://www.mnot.net/ _______________________________________________ TLS mailing list TLS@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/tls
