-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 9/18/09 1:33 PM, Bernard Aboba wrote: > The IETF does not and cannot make any warranties relating to the > political views, manners or behavior of attendees. The attendees are > responsible for their own actions, and the IETF has no ability ensure > their conformance to local laws or customers. If attendees violate the > laws or customs of the host country, they may face consequences -- but > they're on their own. > > So if the question is whether the IETF should sign any agreement that > takes responsibility for the behavior attendees, I'd say that this is a > bad idea. It's not really an issue of politics -- I'd say the same > thing if the meeting were being held in Palm Beach and the city > requested that the IETF take responsibility for ensuring that > participants conformed to the dress code (no white after labor day!). Wearing white after Labor Day, while gauche, does not put a damper on technical discussions (and their inevitable political ramifications) within the IETF. Peter - -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkqz6YIACgkQNL8k5A2w/vwFrgCeK1cDB59f40e+R/C1/YEOXC0u zXgAnRqD71gLSrLHJI81hze7tq2wSwUY =TAU3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf