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@xxxxxxxx or ietf@xxxxxxxx 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 _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf