IESG proposed statement on the IETF mission
Eric Rosen
erosen at cisco.com
Thu Oct 23 10:51:23 CEST 2003
Harald> I don't think that it's necessary for the IETF mission to be
Harald> consistent with every decision we've taken in the past.
If your "mission statement" is inconsistent with MANY of the decisions that
have been taken in the past, then you should admit that you are trying to
change the IETF's mission to suit your own preferences, rather than trying
to codify any existing practice.
If we're not trying for any consistency, then I would raise the following
questions:
1. Why should the IETF work on BGP? Can't that be done by a consortium of
vendors and ISPs separate from the IETF?
2. Why should the IETF work on DNS? Can't that be done by a consortium of
vendors and ISPs separate from the IETF?
3. Why should the IETF exist at all? Surely anything it does can be done
somewhere else by some other group.
We should either aim for consistency with the past, or else do a
"zero-based" mission statement in which everything is up for grabs and there
are no sacred cows.
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