When there is formal memebership in SDO (W3C, ISOC - which funds IETF), it's mostly large corporations. #IETF101 #ProtocolPeople
Among the discussions at the #IETF : the use of #Github of standardization work : cool, popular, but may exclude people who don't make to use this central silo, and may deprive IETF of its discussions. #ProtocolPeople
@bortzmeyer I felt like I didn't have time to get into that during my short presentation, but I absolutely agree that it's a concern. Email participation has the advantage of being a federated open protocol (no particular account needed), but access/usability is important and some people report email/mailto being more confusing to them than Github issue lists.
@npd I know. That's why I said "gitlab" and not "git".
@bortzmeyer yeah, I wonder if that would work for IETF or W3C groups and if the staff/tools teams would be willing to do it. I think the issue is that groups aren't just using git (decentralized), but also pull requests, issue lists, wiki pages, gh-pages-generated sites, etc.
W3C has produced tools that work with the GitHub repos to make sure content is backed up elsewhere and summarized to mailing lists.