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

John R Levine <johnl@taugh.com> Thu, 09 October 2025 20:20 UTC

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On Thu, 9 Oct 2025, Martin Thomson wrote:
> As a practical matter, chairs often approve transcript-style minutes unmodified.  Is this a failing on their part?  What remediation would you suggest for such laxity?

I could imagine a variety of reasons that WG chairs do that, e.g.:

- they think that more is better so they want all that detail
- they're not sure what is supposed to be in the minutes so they keep it 
all just in case
- they're some combination of swamped or lazy and don't take time to 
extract the important parts, or delegate someone to do it

I suppose if feasible, it might be useful to make a few informal queries, 
these minutes seem awfully long compared to what 2026 asks for, was that 
deliberate or what?

In case it's not clear, I think that ekr's proposal to put the speaker 
names into the transcript makes sense, and that it could be useful to keep 
the transcript in addition to the concise minutes.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
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