On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 2:31 AM, Brian E Carpenter <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2012-05-31 07:22, Eliot Lear wrote: > > ... >> * I've been told by some that the Mission of the IETF is in some way >> out of date. I don't know whether this is true, > > That sound like somebody's personal opinion, but it is still a BCP > and therefore still represents IETF consensus. > >> but if it is, the >> reference should be removed. > > I don't think so.
I just want to support the sense of this message. The mission statement is one of the few things that anchors and orients the work of the IETF -- and personally I like it. If people think it's out of date, let them say explicitly why (they can still do so anonymously) so we can have a real discussion. I don't want to have doubt cast on the mission statement, and have our leadership feel a need to reconsider it, because someone somewhere might have said something general about not liking it. And in any case as long as we have a mission statement the Tao should refer to it. Scott
