Re: Future Handling of Blue Sheets

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Hi John,
At 11:31 10-05-2012, John C Klensin wrote:
participate in any way in an affected WG.  I hate the idea of
the community getting embroiled in accusations and
counter-accusations but one advantage to a working IPR policy
(as well as general openness) of publishing the blue sheets is

I am fine either way with the handling of the blue sheets. I am also fine with whatever the IESG decides (on this topic only :-)). This topic has been sold as a matter of openness. The question can be traced back to newspaperization. In those days, propagation of information was localized. Nowadays, it can be globalized. That can be good; it can also be bad.

The scrawls from the blue sheets will be accessible after around a month. Should the world be able to find out that:

  (i)  you were in Paris

  (ii) you attended the EAI session

Now let's assume that the work is covered by one of your inventions. Although you were in that session according to the blue sheets, you did not participate in the discussion according to the minutes (the analogy is that you are subscribed to the mailing list but you have not posted any messages). Do you have to file an IPR disclosure?

Coming back to being open and transparent, the IETF tends to have a variable stance on that. Exposing information allows other people to evaluate fairness, whether there is conflict of interest, etc. It does not always work out well; some people may be unhappy, offended or uncomfortable. If you look at the list of WGs being tracked, you will notice that some people provided the information, some didn't. I didn't ask why. As a quick thought, I guess that people are uneasy with the idea of the information being publicized to the world or they used the default, this information is not relevant to any random person.

Let's ignore the IPR argument. What question(s) should one ask in setting the boundaries for open and transparent?

Regards,
-sm


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