We have heard from many community participants, and consensus is quite rough on
this topic. The IESG discussed this thread and reached two conclusions:
(1) Rough consensus: an open and transparent standards process is more
important to the IETF than privacy of blue sheet information.
(2) Rough consensus: inclusion of email addresses is a good way to distinguish
participants with the same or similar names.
Based on these conclusions, the plan is to handle blue sheets as follows:
- Continue to collect email addresses on blue sheets;
- Scan the blue sheet and include the image in the proceedings for the WG
session;
- Add indication to top of the blue sheet so people know it will be part of
the proceedings; and
- Discard paper blue sheets after scanning.
On behalf of the IESG,
Russ