Hi Miles, inline: On 27/10/2017 6:27 AM, 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). That is why we have the *vision* statement, which is short and sweet, and seems to have strong support from large parts of the community. > 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 Per the proposal, there are three main pillars: communities, technology, and policy. I understand *you* consider two of these pillars "fluffy", but others would obviously not agree with that :-) Cheers, Gonzalo