[Gendispatch] Re: New draft: draft-rescorla-auto-minutes-00

[Kyle Rose <[e-mail]>]

On Tue, Oct 7, 2025 at 9:07 AM Joel Halpern <[e-mail]> wrote:

> As was discussed in the past, I believe this misses the point of the
> minutes.  I do not object to having the recordings and transcripts.  But
> those do not highlight the decisions and action points, which is the
> primary purpose of the minutes.


While I and many others agree with you on this point, the last discussion
on the topic of how best to take minutes demonstrated clearly that there is
not consensus on this point.

So given that some people really want a discussion transcript, an AI
transcript is *at least* a useful tool to those so interested. A corrected
transcript can then be fed back into the LLM to produce its summary of any
decisions reached, another thing that is *at least* a useful tool to
someone trying to compile such a list. These are tasks that LLMs are
actually pretty good at, and we should take advantage of them, both to
improve the output and to avoid the "Bueller?" problem of begging for
minute takers at the start of each session.

Anything that reduces toil is a good thing, IMO. Let's not let the perfect
be the enemy of the good here.

Kyle