Ole Jacobsen <olejacobsen@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Yet we seem to do that all the time so let me ask you this:
> Suppose we could predict# that some number of attendees from China
> would be denied* entry into the US or Canada or Argentina at an
> upcoming meeting. Should we conclude that holding the meeting in those
> locations is unacceptable and seek a relocation?
I believe that we should conclude that, and that we ought to seek a
relocation as well. It would have been nice if this had somehow gone up to
the US Senate along with the IANA Transition stuff this week.
> * By "denied" I mean no response received about visa application, visa
> denied, visa approved months after meeting took place, etc. In one
> IETF meeting, 77 people from China applied for letters of invitation
> and visas, 27 were able to receive the visas in time to attend.
I note that it included one IAB member who was not returned for a second term.
Would the nomcom have made a different decision had an in-person interview
been possible? I don't know.
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Michael Richardson <mcr+IETF@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Sandelman Software Works
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