On Oct 12, 2009, at 8:44 AM, Dave CROCKER wrote:
The questions constitute a denial of service attack on IETF operations.
I really don't think so. I don't even think there's a denial of service effect, regardless of intent. The community was asked for feedback about meeting in the PRC given what appears to be some pretty problematic text in the hotel contract. I don't think that questions about what that text actually might mean in practice are inappropriate or disruptive. To the contrary - I think it's quite clear from the discussion that there's not a common understanding of the contract terms, or, for that matter, even a common understanding of the questions that were asked in the first place. Personally, I don't know what I think although I'm leaning towards thinking it's a bad idea if a hotel employee can shut the meeting down if they don't like the content or what some random attendee says in the hallway. But - and this is a big but - I don't know if I'm understanding the contract correctly. And because of my own lack of clarity around the terms of the contract I'm grateful for Cullen's questions, which I think will help crystallize much of what's under discussion. Melinda _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf