IETF mission (RE: pausable explanation for the Document Series)

[Melinda Shore]

> Let me suggest that the most significant thing in your commentary, along
> with some other observations that have been showing up, is that we are
> all tending to believe that we have to invent all sorts of structures
> and processes, often ignoring existing ones.
> We should, at least, consider reviving the ones that have been ignored.
> (This requires actually becoming familiar with them.)

In reading some of the recent messages I think it's become
clear, at least to me, that in some cases the "problems"
we're having aren't procedural/policy problems but rather
problems in how we're implementing established procedure and
policy.  It may be legitimate to ask if a bad implementation
of a policy is because the policy can't be implemented well,
though.

Melinda