On 07/19/2012 01:11 AM, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
But the IANA repository is git, too? Can you elaborate on why it's private?
The IANA repository is Git-based, yes. It contains a bit more information than what's in the unofficial public repository, related to how stuff gets distributed and published from IANA. It also contains less information, as it focuses on what gets published, and does not record every individual change ever made to the database. I am not as familiar with the internal details of the IANA repository, and haven't investigated the possibilities of publishing it. For one thing we'd need to clarify the copyright status of the stuff that's in it but not in the unofficial public repository. Eventually I hope that the functions of the two repositories can merge, so that one is just a branch or a subset of the other, or something like that. This will take some doing, though. I'm using Github for the unofficial repository because IANA is not currently set up to do public Git hosting. This may change, though that would also take some work, as there are nontrivial security and scalability issues.