Alan, The most obvious answer to your question is that it is not at all clear if the government would even reply or if they did, how long it would take for them to reply, and even then, how much information you would be able to take away from the reply apart from "don't break the law". Do you think any other government of any other country would provide an answer in a manner and timeframe that would be at all be useful? But really, we do not believe that an IETF meeting would be breaking any laws if we are conducting our normal IETF business. Ole On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Alan Clark wrote: > > Why not provide a list of the potential problem topics to the > Chinese government (maybe via MIIT or SAC) and say that the IETF > does have open discussions in these areas, hence provided they > accept this then IETF would be delighted to have the opportunity to > meet in Beijing. If China is not willing to allow IETF to have the > same level of open discussion that other countries would - then > reconsider the venue. > > IMHO China is an excellent country to visit however IETF should > select meeting locations that allow open discussion within the > normal agenda/ topics > > Alan > _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf