On Sep 24, 2009, at 3:31 PM, Ole Jacobsen wrote:
We brag about being a global organization and how we're all connecting people together with our technology, but the minute we encounter a slightly ominous sounding clause we're going to just walk away?
I don't think that's a particularly fair characterization of what's been said. I think the issue is that there's a lot that's really not known, that the wording of the contract is unclear but a little threatening around stuff that's known to happen at IETF meetings, and so on. Looking at it from a threat evaluation framework, it seems to me that the actual likelihood of something happening along these lines is pretty small, but the impact of it, if it did happen, would be enormous, and it's the enormity of the consequences that makes this look more risky than meetings in other places where the hotel contract doesn't include clauses about shutting the meeting down if attendees criticize the local government. Melinda _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf