Re: The "purpose of the IETF" thing

[Rob Austein <sra@hactrn.net>]

At Fri, 25 Jul 2003 22:36:46 +0200, Bert Wijnen wrote:
> 
> > I think the "high quality, relevant standards for the Internet"
> > is a fine capsule description of *one* thing we do.
> 
> I think that the IESG at the London IETF (but we have a few new
> members now) was more or less in agreement with that *one* thing
> we do or at least need to do. 
> 
> Form the discussions on the problem-statement and the latest 
> IESG plenary, I am not so sure that we have IETF-wide consensus
> on that. Do we?

nope.  it would be nice to think that one could build such a consensus
based on an enlightened self-interest argument.