The IESG has approved the following document: - 'A Mission Statement for the IETF ' <draft-alvestrand-ietf-mission-02.txt> as a BCP This document has been reviewed in the IETF but is not the product of an IETF Working Group. The IESG contact person is David Kessens. Technical Summary This memo gives a mission statement for the IETF, tries to define the terms used in the statement sufficiently to make the mission statement understandable and useful, argues why the IETF needs a mission statement, and tries to capture some of the debate that led to this point. Working Group Summary This is document is not the work of an IETF working group, but is a contribution by the IETF chair Protocol Quality David Kessens reviewed this document for the IESG. --- Note to the RFC editor: Please correct the following style/spelling errors: Old: Open process - any interested participant can participate in the work, New: Open process - any interested person can participate in the work, - Old: Misson: What an organization sets out to do. New: Mission: What an organization sets out to do. - Old: Sometimes the IETF defines standards that are ultimately used mostly for non-global IP-routing Internet. New: Sometimes the IETF defines standards that ultimately see the most use outside the global Internet. _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce