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Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> Sun, 12 October 2025 02:03 UTC

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Subject: PSA: Automatic Minutes Generation
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Hi Chairs,

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.

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.

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