Re: Recording discussion

2005-07-14 Thread Steve Miller
Perhaps requiring less effort and being just as useful would be having
volunteers dictate the written narrative minutes and make them
available as OGG or MP3?

On 7/14/05, Sam Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > "Simon" == Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> Simon> Brian E Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> 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.
> 
> Simon> Sounds useful to me.  How about actually recording the
> Simon> discussion too?  And publishing them as OGG or MP3.
> Simon> Editing out personnel discussion would still be possible.
> Simon> All for the sake of transparency and accountability.
> 
> Simon> Regards, Simon
> I think doing this on a regular basis would be too time consuming to
> edit.  However I think it would actually be useful to the community,
> to those considering serving on the IESG etc to record one telechat a
> year or so and edit out the confidential bits.  I certainly know I had
> no idea what to expect when I called into my first telechat.
> 
> --Sam
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Re: A proposed experiment in narrative minutes of IESG meetings

2005-07-14 Thread Steve Miller
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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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@ietf.org
> or ietf@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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Re: Question about Obsoleted vs. Historic

2005-07-11 Thread Steve Miller
I would assume historical reference.

On 7/10/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was wondering if someone could help me out on this one.  I was doing a bit
> of analysis on the current RFC list, and noticed that some Draft Standard
> documents are obsoleted.  For example:
> 
>  954 NICNAME/WHOIS. K. Harrenstien, M.K. Stahl, E.J. Feinler.
>   Oct-01-1985. (Format: TXT=7397 bytes) (Obsoletes RFC0812) (Obsoleted
>   by RFC3912) (Status: DRAFT STANDARD)
> 
> This really made me scratch my head. One would imagine if a protocol is 
> obsoleted
> by another, it would not be listed as a Draft Standard any longer.
> 
> What is the reason for continuing to list something obsolete as a Draft 
> Standard?
> 
> John
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