-The time has come to create an organizational structure to allow the effort to grow
-Beyond the Berkeley + Others
-It is a balancing act
-Stability vs Innovation
-Broad Participation vs Strong Requirements
-Uniform Licensing vs Institutional Differences
-Goal is to help to community to work together
-Not a forum for maneuvering and intrigue
-Focus on consensus building and technical soundness
-Minimal mechanism to resolve rare differences
-Focus on working groups and individual contributions
-with architectural and organization oversight
-Be pragmatic on participation
-Don\92t have to make deep commitments to participate
-Can\92t expect broad guarantees in return
-
-12. Author's Address
+By focusing on consensus building and technical excellence, the
+Alliance seeks to avoid being a forum for political and economic
+positioning. It will achieve this by focusing on working groups and
+the contributions of individuals, while not taking strong positions on
+the benefits or drawbacks of different approaches. The diverse
+requiremements of sensornet applications mean that having a suite of
+solutions, rather than a single one, is often not only desirable but
+essential.
+
+Over the past five years, low-power embedded sensor networks have
+grown from research prototypes to working systems that are being
+actively deployed. Furthermore, there is a vibrant research community
+that actively works to deploy these systems and collaborate with
+industry, making advances quickly accessible and usable. A great
+catalyst to this growth has been the presence of a large community
+around a shared, free code base.
+
+The time has come to create an organizational structure to
+allow the effort to grow further. As sensornets become more widespread,
+contributions and advancements will be from an increasingly broad
+demographic of users, and bringing them all together will speed
+progress and improve the potential benefit these systems can bring
+to society. This focus on bringing disparate groups together lies
+at the heart of the Alliance. Rather than depend on strong requirements,
+it depends on broad collaboration and participation, placing a minimalist
+set of expectations that will encourage the exchange of ideas and
+technology.
+
+
+12. Authors' Address
+====================================================================
+
+| Philippe Bonnet <bonnet.p at gmail.com>
+| David Culler <dculler at archrock.com>
+| Deborah Estrin <destrin at cs.ucla.edu>
+| Ramesh Govindan <ramesh at usc.edu>
+| Mike Horton <mhorton at xbow.com>
+| Jeonghoon Kang <budge at keti.re.kr>
+| Philip Levis <pal at cs.stanford.edu>
+| Lama Nachman <lama.nachman at intel.com>
+| Jack Stankovic <stankovic at cs.virginia.edu>
+| Rob Szewczyk <rob at moteiv.com>
+| Matt Welsh <mdw at cs.harvard.edu>
+| Adam Wolisz <awo at ieee.org>
+
+13. Citations