On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 3:12 PM, Leif Johansson <leifj@xxxxxx> wrote: > On 2016-04-07 20:30, Dhruv Dhody wrote: >> +1 >> >> I am happy to see that LGBT inclusiveness taken seriously by the IETF. >> But looking at the law on the books in black and white, would be doing a >> disservice to a large region of the world (with a large number of >> Internet users). > > I don't parse that actually. > > How is reading the law of Singapore "doing disservice to a large region > of the world?" I think the idea is that a literal interpretation of archaic laws in many places would give you a wrong impression. Let me give a small example. I assume most of the attendees at this meeting flew into Argentina and brought with them at least one laptop with a vale over $300 USD. It seems there is an Argentine law requiring you to file a customs declaration on entry and imposing a 50% duty on the value of what you bring in over $300 USD. This seems somewhat onerous since almost everyone at this meeting has a laptop worth more than $300. But from my observations as EZE, the Argentina authorities do not care if you have filled out this form and thousands of people stream through a day completely ignoring it. The authorities will take it from you if you filled it out but don't seem to even look at it very closely... So it seems to be no problem for IETF meeting attendees. Thanks, Donald ============================= Donald E. Eastlake 3rd +1-508-333-2270 (cell) 155 Beaver Street, Milford, MA 01757 USA d3e3e3@xxxxxxxxx >.... > > Cheers Leif