Re: Barely literate minutes

[Peter Saint-Andre <[e-mail]>]

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On 11/28/12 2:45 PM, Dave Crocker wrote:
> 
> 
> On 11/28/2012 1:36 PM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
>> IMHO it is the chairs' responsibility to listen to the audio
>> recording and produce minutes from that (or at least check the
>> scribe's minutes against the audio recording). I've done this in
>> the past (full disclosure: not always) and it is a lot of work.
> 
> 
> I strongly disagree.
> 
> Chairs have a high workload already.  A strength of a working
> group needs to be its ability to distribute work amongst
> participants.
> 
> If a working group cannot obtain the services of a participant
> willing to take notes and be responsible for getting wg review of
> them, then the wg has bigger problems.

In my experience, if a lot is happening in the WG session at an IETF
meeting then it is extremely difficult for any one participant (or
even a team of two working on etherpad) to take accurate notes. One
example that I chaired was the second codec BoF in Hiroshima (and
forget about the first one in Stockholm!). However, I think Ted Hardie
and I did a pretty good job with the second httpbis session in Paris.
YMMV. But I do think the chairs are ultimately responsible for the
minutes.

> ps. I'll repeat that I think f2f needs to be essentially irrelevant
> to the assessment of wg consensus, except perhaps as an efficiency
> hack that permits more terse exchanges on the mailing list.

That's a separate topic, but I tend to disagree. Why the heck even
have meetings? And I concur with Marc Blanchet that some WGs really
gel and make good progress in person but don't have great threads on
the mailing list.

Peter

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