As a clarifying question, did the IESG discuss whether the image of the blue sheets might be made available online under other terms of use, rather than within the proceedings? For example, making these available to anyone with a tools login, so that anyone willing to register as a user has access, but they are not broadcast? regards, Ted Hardie On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 9:46 AM, IETF Chair <chair@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > We have heard from many community participants, and consensus is quite rough on this topic. The IESG discussed this thread and reached two conclusions: > > (1) Rough consensus: an open and transparent standards process is more important to the IETF than privacy of blue sheet information. > > (2) Rough consensus: inclusion of email addresses is a good way to distinguish participants with the same or similar names. > > > Based on these conclusions, the plan is to handle blue sheets as follows: > > - Continue to collect email addresses on blue sheets; > > - Scan the blue sheet and include the image in the proceedings for the WG session; > > - Add indication to top of the blue sheet so people know it will be part of the proceedings; and > > - Discard paper blue sheets after scanning. > > > On behalf of the IESG, > Russ >