>> it was clean unfettered Internet. some local folk stuck their necks out >> very far to accomplish this. it was definitely different than one got >> outside of the ietf meeting network. this has been a condition placed >> on hosts and beijing was no exception. > > This surprises me - "this has been a condition placed on hosts...". it was even in the hour of embarrassing babble fred used to prevent people from talking about real problems at the bof > Could you enlighten us as to which [and I'll try to be precise here] > other IETFs had a condition where the content accessible by the IETF > network was markedly different from the content of say the network at > a local Starbuck's equivalent wifi hot spot just down the street from > the IETF and where that was mandated by the hosts and/or local laws? > I mean besides Beijing? Key words "markedly different" and "content > accessible". we don't specify it's 'different'. among other silly distractions, it would require a 'different from precisely what and in what ways?' we simply specifiy open and unfettered rndy