On 3/7/21 2:14 PM, Christian Huitema wrote:
No, we need to know, even if we won't like the answer, and even if we
can't change the situation. Far too much prejudice is perpetuated
by those kinds of taboos.
This is not exactly an issue of prejudice. AFAIK, we do not have
checks to verify that some new subscriber to an IETF working group is
not accessing the server from a penalized country through a VPN, or
any such workaround. We don't really want to set up any check like
that, because they are intrusive and complicated, and also because
they are beyond commonly held standards. Yet, if we conducted an in
depth study of the issue, who knows whether some bureaucrat somewhere
would force the IETF to enforce such checks, or force the LLC to spend
a good chunk of money asserting our rights to not do that. It is
probably much wiser to let sleeping dogs lie.
Any time someone says we shouldn't ask whether we're effectively
discriminating against people in some way, that's a huge red flag.
Keith
