Re: Future Handling of Blue Sheets

[IETF Chair <[e-mail]>]

Ted:

I will raise this with the IESG.  Of the many variants that were discussed, this was not one of them.

Russ


On May 7, 2012, at 11:50 AM, Ted Hardie wrote:

> As a clarifying question, did the IESG discuss whether the image of
> the blue sheets might be made available online under other terms of
> use, rather than within the proceedings?  For example, making these
> available to anyone with a tools login, so that anyone willing to
> register as a user has access, but they are not broadcast?
> 
> regards,
> 
> Ted Hardie
> 
> On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 9:46 AM, IETF Chair <[e-mail]> 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
>> 
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