Melinda, On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 03:41:17PM -0800, Melinda Shore wrote: > > 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. On the other hand, to put this into perspective, some people might argue that the chance of a huge winterstorm on the sunday before an IETF meeting in cities like Minneapolis/Chicago causing the airport to close for three days, an earthquake striking the bay area/Japan/LA basin right before/during a meeting or something mundane like a hotel roof collapsing due to rainoverload and flooding of a hotel are risks that are perhaps much more worthy to keep the secretariat&IAOC members up late at night. David Kessens --- _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf