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RE: [atlarge-discuss] What is our Mission?

I disagree...I support that statement as an articulation of the scope of our 
vision. that statement actually lies at the boundary between a vision and a 
mission. maybe we can derive both from the statement.

Quoting Walter Schmidt <walts@dorsai.org>:

> On Sat, 19 Oct 2002, Hans Klein wrote:
> 
> > I believe this mission statement...
> 
>    ...what I wrote was a vision (not a/the mission statement), upon which
> a Mission Statement would be built, along the lines:
> 
>  - a vision (included below)
>  - who we are
>  - our individual roles
>  - communication about ourselves to others
>  - communications amongst ourselves
>  - goal achievement
> 
> 
> > articulates worthy principles.  However, I think 1) it is very broad
> > (so broad as to be unworkable for us) and 2)  other organizations are
> > already pursuing this mission.
> > 
> > To the extent that we represent users in ICANN, we are unique and we 
> > perform an important (if limited) role.
> > 
> > Hans
> > 
> > At 12:04 AM 10/19/2002 -0700, Bruce Young wrote:
> > 
> > >Walter Schmidt wrote:
> > >
> > >|  To MAINTAIN and advance the global interests of the Internet in an
> open
> > >|  democratic process, by innovation, communication, and international
> > >|  encouragement of the concept that the needs and rights of all people
> are
> > >|  not to be abrogated by the technical, business, military or
> governmental
> > >|  interests of those who are otherwise so vested.
> > >
> > >I *like* it!  Panel, let's discuss using this as the basis of our
> mission
> > >statement.
> > >
> > >Bruce Young
> > >Portland, Oregon USA
> > >byoung651@attbi.com
> > >http://www.barelyadequate.info
> > >--------------------------------------------
> > >Support democratic control of the Internet!
> > >Go to http://www.icannatlarge.org and Join ICANN At Large!
> > 
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