Re: [irsg] Minutes being messed with?

["Andrew G. Malis" <[e-mail]>]

Sandy,


but - why does the minute taker having a datatracker account make anyone
feel better?  I’ve lost track - what problem does having a datatracker
account solve?


If someone (for example) accidentally replaces the Etherpad minutes with a
foreign language translation, there would be traceability as to who did it,
so we can ask them nicely to not do that again. Or it could be prevented in
the first place if it was a non-IETFer without a datatracker account that
accidentally destructively did the translation.

Cheers,
Andy


On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 1:36 PM Sandra Murphy <[e-mail]> wrote:

>
>
> > On Aug 7, 2019, at 12:31 PM, Jim Fenton <[e-mail]> wrote:
> >
> > On 8/7/19 9:21 AM, Salz, Rich wrote:
> >>>> It is probably more than enough to limit write access to people with
> datatracker accounts.
> >>
> >>>   I support that.   We can then see if that solves the problem.
> >>
> >> It looks like a simple matter of programming :)  Etherpad already
> supports a read-only access, and an oauth plugin, and there's a ticket to
> add it to datatracker,
> https://trac.tools.ietf.org/tools/ietfdb/ticket/2749 if anyone has that
> mythical "copious free time."
> >>
> >>
> > Someone had expressed concern that requiring a datatracker login would
> > make it harder to recruit notetakers. I had expected that most attendees
> > who are likely notetakers already have datatracker accounts.
> >
> > Does anyone know if that concern is warranted?
>
> I had a similar thought about barriers.  How many ietf attendees have
> datatracker accounts?  (could be that only the number of datatracker
> accounts is known.)  what is the process for getting an account?  (if it is
> automated and responds quickly, the barrier is small).
>
> but - why does the minute taker having a datatracker account make anyone
> feel better?  I’ve lost track - what problem does having a datatracker
> account solve?
>
> >
> > -Jim
>
>