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.
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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,
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Old:
Misson: What an organization sets out to do.
New:
Mission: What an organization sets out to do.
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Old:
Sometimes the IETF defines standards that are ultimately used mostly
for non-global IP-routing Internet.
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Sometimes the IETF defines standards that ultimately see the
most use outside the global Internet.