On Thu, 8 Oct 2009, Michael StJohns wrote: > > To rephrase in a way that you may not agree. > > "We certainly need to establish that the environment of the site, > host or country would not cause us or tend to cause us to modify our > behavior away from that common to normal IETF meetings." > > It really isn't about whether or not we might or might not get in > trouble, its whether or not the plain language of the laws and > contracts describe an environment which is incompatible with the > IETF norm. > I agree. There might be some issues in some countries about what is acceptable behavious OUTSIDE of the meeting room, but we should certainly be able to conduct business as usual in our meetings themselves. (Ignoring for the time being any discussion of "plain language" and various readings of such). Ole _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf