Re: Automatic Minutes Generation

[Eric Rescorla <[e-mail]>]

On Sun, Oct 12, 2025 at 2:37 AM Xipengxiao <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Hi Eric,
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> Thank you for the tool. I will give it a try in IETF 124.  I really think
> all WGs should try to use AI to increase efficiency. In IETF 123 I also
> tried ChatGPT o3 for producing meeting minutes from the transcript.  It’s
> generally good but there is one hallucination so in the end I still used
> the human version.  But as you said, asking a person to take the minutes
> really adds to his/her burden, and the result is not much better than
> ChatGPT’s output. The only benefit of a human minutes is I can be sure that
> there is no hallucination.
>

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> Just curious, did your tool do anything beyond using an AI LLM to
> summarize the transcript?
>

Not really. There's a bunch of supporting machinery [0] to get the list of
sessions out of the proceedings, download the transcript, etc., and
then assemble the summaries into a site, but it's more or less what
you'd expect.

You can find an architecture diagram at: https://ietfminutes.org/about.html

-Ekr



[0] Primarily written by Claude.


XiPeng
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> *From:* Eric Rescorla <[e-mail]>
> *Sent:* Sunday, October 12, 2025 4:03 AM
> *To:* Working Group Chairs <[e-mail]>
> *Subject:* PSA: Automatic Minutes Generation
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> Hi Chairs,
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> Like many of you, I've long been unsatisfied with the situation around
> IETF minute taking, in which we conscript someone into taking minutes,
> thus preventing them from fully participating, and often with mediocre
> results.
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> 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.
>
> Hopefully others will find this useful.
>
> -Ekr
>
> P.S. I'm not a WG chair, so you should make sure to keep
> me on CC if you want a response.
>