Re: PSA: Automatic Minutes Generation

[Eric Rescorla <[e-mail]>]

On Mon, Oct 13, 2025 at 3:04 AM Alan DeKok <[e-mail]> wrote:

> On Oct 12, 2025, at 4:02 AM, Eric Rescorla <[e-mail]> wrote:
> > In an attempt to partly address this situation, I've put together an
> > automatic minutes generator at (https://ietfminutes.org/) The site
> > takes as input the Meetecho transcript and produces AI-generated
> > minutes. I've gone back and made minutes through IETF 112 (November
> > 2021) and I plan to produce minutes for IETF 124 (Montreal) once
> > transcripts are available, shortly after the meeting.
>
>   I think this is very useful.
>
>   For the WGs I follow, the minutes look to be 99% correct.  Some need
> minor touch-ups, as acronyms and industry-specific terms are not always
> rendered correctly.
>
>   But these minutes look to be clearer and easier to understand than most
> of the hand-written minutes which have been historically available.
>
>   My $0.02 would be to add these to the standard IETF workflow, as
> proposed / preliminary minutes.  The WG chairs can then copy-edit them, and
> approve them as final minutes.
>

I'd certainly be happy to assist the tools team with that. I'm not quite
sure what the process is for determining whether that should be done or
what the priority is.

-Ekr