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A proposed experiment in narrative minutes of IESG meetings

2005-07-14 06:19:57
The IESG is interested in carrrying out an experiment to publish
narrative minutes for IESG meetings as well as the regular minutes
of decisions taken.

Currently the IESG minutes are a formal record of decisions taken
and (like the agenda) are generated semi-automatically by the
secretariat. This is a well-oiled process that we don't want to
disturb. However, the community clearly would like more information
about the way the IESG reaches its decisions, beyond the record
of comments on each document that is stored in the I-D tracker.

We propose that, for an initial period of 6 months, a member of
the community will be added to regular IESG meetings as a "recording
secretary" who will write narrative minutes of the discussions,
which will be posted publicly after IESG review for accuracy.
(As always, personnel discussions will need to remain private
or be minuted with great care.)

The IESG welcomes comments on this proposal, to iesg(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
or ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org as appropriate. If the community seems to be
in favour of this experiment, we will soon call for volunteers
and pick one person to act for the initial six months. After
six months, we will ask the community whether the results
justify continuing the effort. The main question will be whether
the community is getting useful extra information.

(Thanks to Spencer Dawkins for triggering this idea.)

   Brian for the IESG






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