Re: [IAB] IETF support for remote participation/virtual meetings

[John C Klensin <klensin at jck.com>]

--On Wednesday, October 14, 2009 22:33 -0700 Alexa Morris
<amorris at amsl.com> wrote:

>> In the hope that this is _really_ easy (and hence can be done
>> in some quick and dirty fashion... with the emphasis on
>> "quick"), why not create an "unedited/draft interim meeting
>> minutes" page somewhere?  Put links to it from at least a
>> couple of the IETF main page, the "meetings" page, and the WG
>> Charter pages (even if the latter have to be patched
>> manually).   That leaves "official" publication, and any
>> discussions we might need to have about what "official"
>> means, until you get your tools sorted out but has the
>> information readily available for people's preparation for WG
>> sessions at the next IETF meeting.
> 
> Yes, we can do that. We'll work on getting something up by the
> end of next week.  The only exception is that we can't do this
> for the WG charter pages because they are dynamically
> generated and, while we do plan to rewrite those as well, that
> is another, much larger, project. However we'll put links up
> from other pages so that the draft interim meeting minutes are
> easy to find.

Great.  The limitation on the charter pages actually doesn't
surprise me but I note that they don't contain links to minutes
in the Proceedings either.  As long as there is a reasonably
intuitive way to find them, I think it will be fine and the
other two should be more than adequate.

It occurs to me that, as you redesign the Charter pages and
tools, links to each of the Proceedings in which minutes for
that WG appear might be helpful both in themselves and as a
convenient historical record.  I don't know if it would be worth
the trouble and clutter: you might at least want to poll others
on that question when the time comes.

Many thanks for the quick response and schedule.

   john