>I think it should be considered that if such restrictions are acceptable >for on venue, once the precedent is set, it may well be requested again. Quite possibly, and I expect that should it happen, we'll debate the merits again. No venue is perfect, and any large country is going to have political issues. People from several countries cannot get US visas, simply because of where they live, not anything they've done, but we seem willing to meet in the US anyway. China is a large and sophisticated country, nothing we do is going to change that, and politically motivated boycotts far larger than anything the IETF could do have invariably been ineffective and often counterproductive. Whatever small influence we might exert is going to be far greater if we meet and interact with the people who run the Chinese Internet. R's, John _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf