Do or do not; there is no "believe in" or "committed to"

[jyasskin]

https://www.w3.org/TR/w3c-vision/#op-principles includes a lot of "We believe in", "We aim to", and "We are committed to". The Vision should just say we do things, not that we want to do them.

[cwilso]

In general, the Vision was clarifying our rationale for WHY we would do particular things, which I strongly believe is appropriate, particularly in the "We believe in diversity and inclusion.." point. There is also a difference between saying "we are committed to doing this" and "we will do this [maybe just a little bit]". This isn't just saying "we want to do these things", it's "these are the principles we hold dear."

There is one place I might change:

Consensus: We believe in principled, community-wide consensus-building as the basis for building standards.
should really have an action, like
Consensus: We will use principled, community-wide consensus-building as the basis for building standards.

As for the "we aim to" - it is not immediately apparent what action to take to reduce centralization. We went around and around on this; stating it as a principled goal is important.