Re: PSA: Automatic Minutes Generation

Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> Mon, 03 November 2025 20:31 UTC

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From: Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2025 12:30:33 -0800
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Subject: Re: PSA: Automatic Minutes Generation
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Update:
I am generating live-ish minutes for IETF 124 at:
https://ietfminutes.org/minutes/ietf124/index.html

It takes some time for Meetecho to produce the transcripts, so they're
not available right after the meeting, but as a reference point Monday
Session I is now available.

-Ekr


On Sat, Oct 11, 2025 at 7:02 PM Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> wrote:

> 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.
>