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You know 10 years ago when there was one browser,

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it was really easy to know what to do.

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It was also easy to see the problem, right?

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You know, there's one browser.

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IE controls the web. We know all the things that happen when you have a world like that.

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So, ... today it's a lot more complicated.

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It's hard to actually see the problem and to see what the success is.

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The the idea was "hmm" could we figure out

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some set of signs or, attributes or, values, that we could start to watch and look at.

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To figure out how healthy the web is;

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and, how healthy, how successful we may be at our mission.

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And we could talk a little bit about or, for actually a long time about:

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what the definition of the web is;

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and, what's the difference between Open Web and Open Internet.

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We could have that discussion but, for today, let's try and skip over that part.

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And, just think of two things, at least [that's] the way I've framed it, or at least I think of it.

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There are those principles that underlie the internet.

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The core principles [from] when the internet was created that you've heard folks talk about.

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And then, over time, [those] that really dealt with: the telecommunications; the bits;

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the interoperability; the decentralisation; the net neutrality;

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the permissive publishing idea; the redundancy parts;

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the parts that make the internet work.

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But then over time with the web, some other things have started to grow on top of that.

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It's developed more values and attributes.

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And as Tim Berners-Lee called it, the ultimate attribute is universality.

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We posited that there might be some vital signs, that might indicate the health of the web.

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I mean, if you were a doctor, you're going to look at a couple of signs to figure out whether you're healthy or not.

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So the idea being for the purposes of today, let's just pick some that we thought were important indicators.

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So let's start with access.

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How many people are online?

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From what we can tell right now,

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it looks like only a third of the people in the world are online.

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And then the distribution of that third, it's not too even.

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If you have a disability, the internet is really not set up for you.

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And that's something that I think Mozilla is a particular steward for and can be.

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Let's talk about interoperability for a little bit.

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On the browser side.

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That's a pretty good state. Browsers are relatively competitive.

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Content freedom, also known as net neutrality or, content neutrality or,

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the principle of non-discrimination for the internet.

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How's that doing?

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Well, largely good but, there're some outliers.

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We've seen in past three years, greater attempts to restrict content on the internet at national level.

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User choice and control.

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So on the browser side there's lots of choice for users today.

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On the mobile side, not so much.

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Economic activity. Advertising powers the web.

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That's the largest form of economic activity on the web.

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App sales is largely on the mobile side, right?

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Finally I wanted to look at what we may call a trust metric.

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And this a hard one. Some of these are quantitative and some are qualitative.

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And on the trust side, it's not doing well. We've all been dancing around this idea of trust but,

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that's something that's really important, that goes to the health of the web,

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and that we talk about that, we do lots of things around that.

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Transparency is a form that leads to trust. We work on that all the time.

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So, why don't we try to measure those things?

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Let's figure out how we could create something that is more ongoing and more formal.

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And perhaps have kind of like the Mary Meeker of the Open Internet Report.

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If Mozilla couldn't do that, who could?

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Why wouldn't it be us to do that?