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[Ian Young <ian AT iay.org.uk>]

On 27 Mar 2014, at 10:18, Niels van Dijk <niels.vandijk AT surfnet.nl> wrote:

> Is there a reason why eduGIAN is publishing various policy documents in
> ".doc" format?
> (http://www.geant.net/service/eduGAIN/resources/Pages/home.aspx)
> 
> It seems to me one would not need to buy MS Word to be able to join
> eduGAIN and read its documentation?

I think the last time this came up Brook said "oops" and offered to upload 
some definitive PDFs. I guess this should serve as a reminder that it hasn't 
happened yet.

> In addition these files leak information, like e.g. past revisions,
> comments by named users etc. Is that information required as part of the
> policy document?

I think the .doc form is somewhat useful while the documents are still being 
edited. Once a document has been agreed, though, I think the mutable forms 
and their change history should be removed from the publication site and 
replaced by immutable, clean, PDFs.

        -- Ian

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