[Tools-discuss] Re: [irsg] Re: Automatic Minutes for IETF 126

[Jane Coffin <[e-mail]>]

I remember a transcript that was generated that we could edit...
Is that still a feature we can use?


Jane R Coffin
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On Sat, Aug 15, 2026 at 7:14 PM Kent Watsen <[e-mail]> wrote:

> The NETCONF chairs reviewed the
> minutes <https://ietfminutes.org/minutes/ietf126/netconf.html>
>  for NETCONF <https://ietfminutes.org/minutes/ietf126/netconf.html>.
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> A couple comments:
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>    1. The minutes attribute five times my co-chair spoke to "Tarek
>    Saad".  We understand that Tarek is a chair, but he wasn't in the NETCONF
>    session (bluesheets
>    <https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/126/bluesheets/bluesheets-126-netconf-202607211200-03.txt>),
>    so we don't understand how the AI got confused.
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>    2. So then we thought to edit the posted minutes, i.e., s/Tarek Saad/Per
>    Andersson/g, but don't see a way to do that, unless filing an issue
>    <https://github.com/ietf-minutes/ietf-minutes-data/issues/43> is
>    expected.  We know that we could copy/edit the minutes, but then that takes
>    away from https://ietfminutes.org from being the sole source for
>    automated minutes.
>
>
> Thanks for the effort!
>
> Kent
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> On Jul 21, 2026, at 9:52 PM, Eric Rescorla <[e-mail]> wrote:
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> Hi folks,
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> I'm automatically generating minutes again for IETF 126 at:
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>   https://ietfminutes.org/minutes/ietf126/index.html
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> This time around we have a number of improvements:
>
> * Switched to a dedicated speech-to-text model and then using an LLM
>   for corrections and speaker names.
> * Added timestamps to the generated transcripts
> * Ingesting chat logs and polls and include the polls in the
>   result.
>
> Hopefully these will improve quality and make the site more useful
> out of the box.
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> I'm sure there will still be some errors, so I've now added a feature
> that lets you suggest a correction to the generated transcript and
> minutes.  Clicking on the "Suggest a Correction" button will bring up
> a GitHub issue template where you can fill in what's wrong and the
> system will try to fix things. Right now, I need to approve all
> corrections, but if this works I may try to figure out a way to let
> chairs approve.
>
> As always, feedback welcome, either in email or as GitHub issues.
>
> -Ekr
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