Re: IETF mission boundaries

Vernon,

I'm not much for mission statements either.  But it's easy to fall into 
a "Dilbert" view of the world, even when such things might actually help.
I think the intent is to derive from some community consensus on goals 
how to evolve the organization.  And we are at a crossroads.  Either we 
pretty much limit our scope to a more confined area, or we need to grow. 
 And growing is painful.  It involves changing of responsibilities, 
delegation, and the like.  If a mission statement serves as a point of 
consensus from which the IETF management can march, I'm all for it, in 
principle.
Of course, it has to have sufficient substance that one can in fact 
derive a direction for management of the organization.
Eliot