From my following of the topic, that concensus was really rough, in
particular the part about publishing the scans on-line. That represents
a significant difference in ease access which I think required more than
the very very rough concensus you seem to think you found.
On Sun, 6 May 2012, IETF Chair wrote:
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