On Thu, 1 Oct 2009, Bernard Aboba wrote:
Steve Crocker said: "Are you suggesting the IETF is not mature enough to meet in China? After watching this thread for a while, I am beginning to be convinced." The IETF as an organization is mature enough to meet anywhere. However, IETF participation is open, so that attempting to predict the behavior of IETF participants is as difficult as predicting the behavior of anyone on the planet.
Combine Dave Crocker's carefully outlined risk analysis with the IETF's basic open structure which in recent months has allowed us to be subjected to email campaigns with a political agenda. What is to prevent such a group with the intent to disrupt the IETF, for what they believe to be the greater good, from using remote connectivity provisions to insert comments, etc. which would be deemed in violation of the contract without even entering China and subjecting themselves to personal risk?
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