IESG proposed statement on the IETF mission
Harald Tveit Alvestrand
harald at alvestrand.no
Thu Oct 23 12:40:32 CEST 2003
--On 23. oktober 2003 09:51 -0400 Eric Rosen <erosen at cisco.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
True. But I don't want to close out the option of admitting that adopting
TRADE, FORCES, OPES or SPEECHSC was a mistake, or that we shouldn't have
kicked HTML work out of the IETF and into the World Wide Web Consortium, if
that's what the community thinks.
All of these were debated at the time the decisions were made. It would be
a surprise if we, using 20/20 hindsight, were to conclude that we did the
right thing every time.
Note: If I was trying to change the IETF's mission to suit my own
preferences, this discussion would be shorter. I'm trying to change the
IETF's mission to suit the *IETF*'s preferences.
Harald
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