Re: Future Handling of Blue Sheets

[David Morris <[e-mail]>]

>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.
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> (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:
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>   - Continue to collect email addresses on blue sheets;
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>   - Scan the blue sheet and include the image in the proceedings for the WG session;
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>   - Add indication to top of the blue sheet so people know it will be part of the proceedings; and
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>   - Discard paper blue sheets after scanning.
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> 
> On behalf of the IESG,
>   Russ
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>