On 5/24/16 11:57 AM, Ted Lemon wrote:
ISTM that the number of people meaningfully negatively affected by bringing IETF to Singapore is likely quite a bit smaller than the number of people positively affected by bringing IETF to Singapore.
Well, there's some number of us who will not be going to Singapore as a matter of personal conscience, aside from those whose families may be at increased risk. But either way, these seems like an odd way to deal with problems around diversity and inclusion, and I hope that people are asking themselves if they'd frame problems around religious bias, race, and so on in quite the same way. And for the record, given the difficulties we've had getting visas for Chinese participants to come into the US, I'm fine with not meeting in the US until this is resolved. I'd like to think that we're not chucking some participants overboard because assuring their ability to participate is inconvenient and takes some effort. Melinda