[sc34wg3] Draft Minutes from Baltimore: 6-9 December 2003

[Steve Pepper]

At 07:13 07.01.2003 -0500, Patrick Durusau wrote:
>I have made some minor corrections, names spelled correctly, etc. but this 
>remains a very rough draft of the minutes of our meetings.

Thanks, Patrick. I appreciate very much all the work that went into 
collecting these notes and I think they are very useful - especially for 
those who were not present - as a reminder of the kinds of discussions we 
were having. However, I think it is probably rather futile to try and get 
them into a shape that would justify approving them as minutes. I would 
rather see them split into two parts:

- formal minutes that just record the decisions actually taken (most, but 
not all, of which relate to the resolution of SAM issues), and
- informal notes that attempt to capture some of the discussion, but with 
no claim to either complete accuracy or objectivity.

It is in the nature of the kind of discussions SC34 must have that they 
cannot (and probably should not :) be captured in their entirety.

What do others think?

Steve

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