<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Eric - </div><div> </div><div>In groups like the ITU, everyone that happens in the meeting is captured in </div><div>"the Meeting Report". The Report *is* the official output of the meeting, and </div><div>parties often negotiate over its content on a sentence-by-sentence basis (I'm</div><div>not saying this is either good or bad practice, just pointing out how its done</div><div>for these forums). The final Report is published as the only output of the </div><div>meeting, and intermediate/working drafts seen in the closed meeting are </div><div>discarded.</div><div><br></div><div>This weeks ITU's IPv6 Forum was no different, and the document which has</div><div>been circulating is the initial Tuesday 2pm draft of the meeting report from the </div><div>Chair. There was nearly four hours of interventions over the content which </div><div>followed, and so the final document is likely to be materially different in some </div><div>areas. My point is simply that releasing the initial Chairman's draft of the </div><div>meeting report isn't the ITU practice, anymore than allowing open, public</div><div>participation.</div><div><br></div><div>/John</div><div><br></div><div>p.s. (My particular preference is for fully-open meetings, and actual minutes</div><div> over negotiated meeting reports).</div><div><br></div><div>On Mar 18, 2010, at 7:58 PM, Eric Dierker wrote:</div><div><blockquote type="cite"><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="position: static; z-index: auto; "><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><div>I am not reading this right. Do you mean that "it is for this reason more reports and drafts should be made public" ?</div>
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<div>Or are you saying we should not know about such things because the vast majority of the public is too stupid.?</div>
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<div>Or are you saying this made people have to explain themselves and that is bad?</div>
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<div>Or that no one on the "outside" should know what goes on on the "inside"?</div>
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<div>(hopefully explaining this is not tooo much trouble)<br>--- On <b>Thu, 3/18/10, John Curran </b></div>
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<div>So, a reading of it gives a sense of the meeting, it's important not</div>
<div>to rely on it regarding an specific text. For example, the charter</div>
<div>of correspondence study group two was a topic of discussion for</div>
<div>more than an hour, and will a barely recognizable derivative of </div>
<div>what's presently shown. It's for this reason that draft documents</div>
<div>like these are generally not published outside of the study group</div>
<div>members.</div>
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<div>FYI,</div>
<div>/John</div></div></blockquote></td></tr></tbody></table></blockquote></div><br></body></html>