Hi George,
At 12:19 AM 02-10-2024, George Michaelson wrote:
I think you over estimate how "special" we are. Engineering is a
very common subject for Iranians, and the Iranian diaspora is
routinely ring-fenced from venues in the US with training reactors
for instance. Anyone in electrical engineering going to a meeting
with more than a thousand attendees worldwide would be used to
Iranian, Syrian, Iraqi engineers being excluded like this. Some
Engineering conferences like medical conferences have 5,000 or more
participants.
We're not large. We're not unusual. I don't think this level of
visible inclusion on sanctions lists is unusual.
Perhaps i misunderstand.
I assume that by "special" you meant that some country would make an
exception for IETF participants. I don't think so; I could be wrong.
The is a list of attendees at
https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/118/proceedings/attendees/
There wasn't anyone from the countries which you mentioned on the
list of attendees. There is another list of attendees at
https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/114/proceedings/attendees/
There wasn't anyone from the countries which you mentioned. I don't
have any information to believe that attendees from those countries
were excluded.
I found the figure unusual as I was relying on a statement which was
sent to gendispatch several years ago.
Regards,
S. Moonesamy
