RE: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

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Technically, the IETF (or ISOC or IAOC) will not be signing the 
agreement, the host in China will, but that's in some sense a fairly 
minor detail. We would still be expected to "play by the rules".

I don't think anyone is expecting us to warrant the views or 
behaviors of our attendees, so Marshall's question is really about 
disclosing what the rules are ("you have been warned") and asking the 
community if they can live with those rules. And yes, if you break the 
rules, you're on your own, but if it brings down the meeting (and 
network in the process) that's not good for anyone, but we feel it is 
VERY unlikely to happen.

Whether or not we should meet in China based on principles of
free speech and such is, I think, something we need to come to
at least a rough consensus on. We, the IAOC, are confident that
a meeting there would be successful by the usual criteria that
we apply for meetings, but we recognize that the matter at hand
is important and thus it is being disclosed prior to any agreement 
being made.

Ole




Ole J. Jacobsen
Editor and Publisher,  The Internet Protocol Journal
Cisco Systems
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On Fri, 18 Sep 2009, 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!).
> 
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