Re: Proposal to revise ISOC's mission statement

Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Thu, 26 Oct 2017 23:30:53 -0400



    A couple more pithy mission statements:
    MIT: "The mission of MIT is to advance knowledge and educate
      students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship
      that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st
      century."
    DARPA:  "For more than fifty
        years, DARPA has held to a singular and enduring mission: to
        make pivotal investments in breakthrough technologies for
        national security."
    

    On 10/26/17 11:27 PM, Miles Fidelman
      wrote:

    
    Personal
      opinion:  The current mission statement is way too long. John
      Kennedy penned the prototypical mission statement "Land a man on
      the moon, before this decade is out, and return him safely to
      Earth."  The military is pretty good at mission statements, too:
      Short, sweet, too the point - who, what, where, when (how is for
      more detailed plans).
      

      And, just to be clear, the true mission of ISOC has long been to
      provide a non-governmental, stakeholder controlled home for
      Internet Standards (i.e., IETF).  Everything else is fluff.
      

      IMHO.  We need something short & pithy, like "The Glue that
      Holds the Internet Together."  Put the laundry list of bullet
      points on the next slide.
      

      Miles Fidelman
      

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