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Thanks for raising this issue https://github.com/michaelchampion.

As co-chair of the Sustainability Community Group (https://www.w3.org/community/sustainability/participants) I am happy to champion it.

I believe the first of your proposals is sufficient to resolve the specific subject of this issue, which is to add a sustainability principle or value in the Vision, and link to the TAG Ethical Web Principle of Sustainability accordingly.

In particular, PROPOSED:

* Add "The Web must be an environmentally sustainable platform" as a fifth item in the "Vision for the World-Wide Web" section, and link the phrase “environmentally sustainable platform” to https://www.w3.org/TR/ethical-web-principles/#sustainable

I suggest this proposal be considered in the context of my proposed resolution to #5: https://github.com/w3c/AB-public/issues/5#issuecomment-1524210555 as I believe it is consistent with and adds to that proposal.

If the Vision Task Force RESOLVES on this proposal, I am happy to create a PR for the edit accordingly.

For the remaining points https://github.com/michaelchampion raised of adding specific text for “energy consumed by web infrastructure” and crafting new text for the "We will do this by" section, I’d like to do that as subsequent proposals and edits, presuming the task force resolves on the above granular proposal, if that‘s ok with https://github.com/michaelchampion.

I’m ok with keeping this issue open for that, or (preferably) closing this issue per the title being resolved, and opening new issues for considering creating "how to" text for sustainability.

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