Re: [Recentattendees] IETF 100, Singapore -- proposed path forward and request for input

[Ted Lemon <mellon@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 3:58 PM, Alia Atlas <akatlas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

There are certainly conferences that help by providing information about chlidcare (frequently available through the hotel or such) or even organizing joint childcare.  Strangely enough, that helps increase the participation of those with young children and childcare responsibilities (frequently women).  I am not requesting that the IAOC do so - though certainly gathering information about childcare one time for use by many would be helpful.

TBH, this seems much more generally useful to me than optimizing for the case of bringing the family along as support for the same thing, which seems like a fairly heavy lift for many likely IETF participants in comparison.

The case of a nursing adoptive mother seems like a real corner case in the sense that I am not aware of any countries the IETF is likely to ever go to that would not recognize the nursing mother's parental rights.