RE: What is "The Internet community" ? Re: Want to be on the IESG?

[Ron Bonica <[e-mail]>]

Folks,

When I used the term "Internet Community", I was thinking of the *billions* of people who rely on the Internet for their well-being and the *billions* of people who have yet to be connected.

I wasn't thinking about limited domains at all.

                                                                              Ron


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From: Keith Moore <[e-mail]> 
Sent: Thursday, October 7, 2021 4:57 PM
To: Toerless Eckert <[e-mail]>
Cc: Ron Bonica <[e-mail]>; Christian Huitema <[e-mail]>; Stewart Bryant <[e-mail]>; [e-mail]
Subject: Re: What is "The Internet community" ? Re: Want to be on the IESG?

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On 10/7/21 4:49 PM, Toerless Eckert wrote:

> My point here was to distinguish the fact that the "Internet Protocol 
> Community" is more broader and diverse in its constituents, 
> requirments and constraints than the "Internet Community", which is only a key member.

I certainly agree.   I'd also assert that the boundary between the
"Internet Community" and the "Internet Protocol Community" (ecosystem?) is fuzzy.

But I've often heard the argument that we should limit the scope of our work to the full-time connected and/or public Internet, and I disagree
with that argument.   I think we need to accept that our work is widely
used outside of those environments.

Keith