Re: Fwd: FYI: Site Local

[Rob Austein <sra@hactrn.net>]

At Sat, 05 Apr 2003 13:57:01 -0800, Bernard Aboba wrote:
> 
> >So this calls for carefull thinking when this is done a next time.
> >We (the chairs) should realize that a consensus was created during the
> >f2f meeting based on the clearly presented issues and pros and cons
> >of a proposal. If such is the case, then it is important to make
> >sure that the ML gets the same input/information before the ML
> >Last Call for consensus is made. Otherwise we get as can be expected
> >they dis-agree.
> 
> Isn't this what meeting minutes are for?

Yes, in theory.  In practice, reading even the best of minutes
afterwards is significantly different from having been there, at least
for the carbon-based life forms with which I'm familiar :).