Documenting consensus (RE: making strategic problems concrete)

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand]

--On mandag, mars 24, 2003 00:10:39 -0800 Dave Crocker <dhc at dcrocker.net> 
wrote:

> Harald,
>
> Hmmm...
>
> HTA> also a mechanism problem - in order to find out what good work the
> chairs HTA> have been doing in asserting and documenting consensus, I
> either have to HTA> scan mailing list archives or figure out where *this*
> working group keeps HTA> its non-standard extra web pages (or whatever
> other mechanism it uses).
>
> sounds like you would like a separate log of working group issues and
> decisions to be maintained, somewhat like a tracking system for
> internal working group progress?

Certainly one possible solution; another would be to create an "announce" 
mailing list for each WG where the chairs sent out all consensus calls and 
"important" WG actions; a third would be requiring WGs to send monthly 
status reports to the secretariat - all of these have different side 
effects; one thing they share is that they require more "paperwork" for WG 
chairs.

Still trying to name the problem without specifying the solutions....

             Harald