IESG restructuring (Re: Example of the One Liners out of context)

[Jeanette Hofmann]

On 28 May 2003 at 15:07, Eric Rescorla wrote:

> > One can, of
> > > course, adopt any number of theories designed to give it concrete
> > > meaning, but I doubt we could get consensus on any of them.
> > 
> > Are you implying that the IETF could not agree on a mission? Because that is 
> > what I think a mission should also be about.
> 
> I'm having a hard time believing that the IETF is going to come
> to some agreement on e.g., economic efficiency versus minimax
> as the metric for good of the Internet. 

Perhaps this is naïve but I would think the starting point of a mission 
should be to make explicit the common ground of every day working 
group discussion. Now, don't tell me there is no or only little common 
ground. You wouldn't be able to communicate in the first place if you 
didn't share crucial concepts, goals and values. To some degree it 
depends on the language whether you can agree on value based 
issues. 

jeanette 
> 
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