On 20-Jan-2006, at 11:55, Wijnen, Bert (Bert) wrote:
Well said Barry!From: Barry Leiba My biggest concern is in sections "2.3. Freedom of Participation" and "2.5. Attendance Limitation and Visas", in that I'm not sure how realistic they are. Without getting overly into politics (let's please not), I think they reflect a somewhat naïve view of some of the political realities. Specifically... Meetings should not be held in countries where some attendees could be disallowed entry or where freedom of speech is not guaranteed for all participants.
Indeed. Applied with vigour, this restriction implies that no country is suitable to meet in. That leaves us with parts of Antarctica, a floating venue located in international waters, or zero-g bar BOFs in outer space. I favour the latter.
A slightly more realistic approach might be to hold meetings regularly in different countries with (ideally) divergent security/ immigration policies, in the hope that successive meetings might at least exclude different sets of people.
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