On 5/24/16 10:14 AM, Yoav Nir wrote:
Then I guess where I disagree with both you and Melinda is that I don’t think the ability to bring families along should be an important consideration.
I don't, either, but as long as the IETF does, and provides a companion program, I feel quite strongly that IETF travel should be equally accessible to all families. I'd personally be good with dropping the companion stuff UNLESS it was done specifically to avoid problems with travel to places hostile to same-sex partners. That would be the point at which the IETF would cross the line to becoming actively discriminatory. In general I think that the companion program tends to inflate the significance of meeting attendance, or at least the appearance of significance, and I'd really like to see us get better about de-emphasizing physical meetings. Melinda