Re: proposal to change mission statement

On 20 September 2016 at 15:07, Mountie Lee <mountie@paygate.net> wrote:

> Hi.
>
> let me re-post proposal to change mission statement
> at CG homepage (https://www.w3.org/community/blockchain/)
>
> I don't know decision making procedure of CG.
> but anyway
>
> current statement is as following
>
> "The mission of the the Blockchain Community Group is to generate message
> format standards of Blockchain based on ISO20022 and to generate guidelines
> for usage of storage including torrent, public blockchain, private
> blockchain, side chain and CDN. This group will study and evaluate new
> technologies related to blockchain, and use cases such as interbank
> communications."
>
> and the suggestion is as following
>
> The mission of the Blockchain Community Group is to unleash blockchain to
> its full potential by working in the areas, but not limited, to the
> following:
>
>    - To develop the standard protocols of blockchain to interconnect other
>    networks and services across the industries used for financial
>    transactions, mobile operations, autonomous devices, and etc.
>    - To develop the guidelines for the use of storage technology including
>    torrent, different chain species, CDN, and etc.
>    - To study and possibly to develop standard procedures to evaluate the
>    technological variants of blockchain.
>    - To explore use cases to help dreamers, visionaries and entrepreneurs
>    to expand the technology to unexploited realms and territories.
>    - To foster the collaborations and communication of world blockchain
>    engineering and business community.
>
>
> and the discussion history is at https://blockchaincg.
> atlassian.net/browse/BT-8
>

+1

Regarding the storage point.  Why not add HTML to that list as it would
then cover the many block explorers out there and work nicely with the web?