As a chair I always find it useful to go back and review the audio/Meetecho recording following the meeting and whilst doing so I might as well tidy up the minutes. The F2F meeting time can be quite hectic for the chairs and I tend to be concentrating on making sure that we stay on time and everybody gets a fair chance to say what they want to. So it is a must to go back over the recording and make sure I understood all the points people made during the meeting and I might as well check the minutes whilst doing so. Andy > -----Original Message----- > From: ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx [mailto:ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of > Dave Crocker > Sent: 28 November 2012 21:46 > To: Peter Saint-Andre > Cc: IETF discussion list > Subject: Re: Barely literate minutes > > > > On 11/28/2012 1:36 PM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: > > IMHO it is the chairs' responsibility to listen to the audio > recording > > and produce minutes from that (or at least check the scribe's minutes > > against the audio recording). I've done this in the past (full > > disclosure: not always) and it is a lot of work. > > > I strongly disagree. > > Chairs have a high workload already. A strength of a working group > needs to be its ability to distribute work amongst participants. > > If a working group cannot obtain the services of a participant willing > to take notes and be responsible for getting wg review of them, then > the > wg has bigger problems. > > d/ > > ps. I'll repeat that I think f2f needs to be essentially irrelevant to > the assessment of wg consensus, except perhaps as an efficiency hack > that permits more terse exchanges on the mailing list. > -- > Dave Crocker > Brandenburg InternetWorking > bbiw.net