On Sep 18, 2009, at 4:44 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
On 2009-09-19 08:08, Fred Baker wrote:
On Sep 18, 2009, at 12:29 PM, Henk Uijterwaal wrote:
I think it is safe to assume that the government did run some checks
on what the IETF is doing
The government has been negotiating to bring an IETF meeting to China
since 1997, and has been very carefully vetting the IETF's activities
for a long time. U betcha they know what we're doing.
Up to *at least* the level of a Vice Minister of the PRC Government,
from my
personal knowledge. Roughly the same level as the US Government's
direct contact
with the IETF, also from my personal knowledge. There is nothing
sinister
there; we should be flattered.
However, I have a question to the IAOC: do we know if other
standards meetings
such as 3GPP had to sign similar conditions before meeting in the PRC?
Dear Brian;
Please note that we would not be signing these conditions. The host
would be.
We were told that these conditions apply to all conferences, without
exception.
Whether or not other conferences have the same level of transparency
as we do (i.e.,
whether the organizing committees know about these formal
restrictions, and
communicate them to their attendees), I do not know.
Regards
Marshall
Brian
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