To quote from Wikipedia: "Most national laws of the People's Republic of China do not apply to the Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong or Macau. There are no known cases of the Chinese authorities censoring critical political or religious [Internet] content in those territories." I am opposed to the IETF meeting in China except in Hong Kong or Macau. While one could argue endlessly about how likely such IETF documents as RFC 1984 and RFC 2804 or such politically and culturally sensitive issues as language tags, "internationalization" of protocols, issuance of advice/requests to international authorities in reference to country codes, etc., will be a problem, it seems to me that the risk is too great. Thanks, Donald ============================= Donald E. Eastlake 3rd +1-508-634-2066 (home) 155 Beaver Street Milford, MA 01757 USA d3e3e3@xxxxxxxxx On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Noel Chiappa <jnc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > From: Carsten Bormann <cabo@xxxxxxx> > > > Has the SAR (Hong Kong) been considered? > > Excellent idea. Does HK have the same 'Great Firewall of China' issues > (which I would assume would be a fairly significant problem for many > IETF members)? > > Noel > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf > _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf