Re: A proposed experiment in narrative minutes of IESG meetings

[Steve Miller <stmille at gmail.com>]

I think that this is a great idea, Brian.  Further insight into the
decision making process of the IESG, I believe, will benefit everyone
involved.

On 7/14/05, Brian E Carpenter <brc at zurich.ibm.com> wrote:
> The IESG is interested in carrrying out an experiment to publish
> narrative minutes for IESG meetings as well as the regular minutes
> of decisions taken.
> 
> Currently the IESG minutes are a formal record of decisions taken
> and (like the agenda) are generated semi-automatically by the
> secretariat. This is a well-oiled process that we don't want to
> disturb. However, the community clearly would like more information
> about the way the IESG reaches its decisions, beyond the record
> of comments on each document that is stored in the I-D tracker.
> 
> We propose that, for an initial period of 6 months, a member of
> the community will be added to regular IESG meetings as a "recording
> secretary" who will write narrative minutes of the discussions,
> which will be posted publicly after IESG review for accuracy.
> (As always, personnel discussions will need to remain private
> or be minuted with great care.)
> 
> The IESG welcomes comments on this proposal, to iesg at ietf.org
> or ietf at ietf.org as appropriate. If the community seems to be
> in favour of this experiment, we will soon call for volunteers
> and pick one person to act for the initial six months. After
> six months, we will ask the community whether the results
> justify continuing the effort. The main question will be whether
> the community is getting useful extra information.
> 
> (Thanks to Spencer Dawkins for triggering this idea.)
> 
>     Brian for the IESG
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