On 05/26/2016 07:48 PM, Dave Crocker wrote: > > We need a clear and complete statement of the social and legal > realities that are to be used to disqualify a venue. We need that > statement to have IETF rough consensus. > > Absent that agreed list, we are conducting random walk through an > ambiguous decision-tree. Certainly its absence leaves the IAOC with > inadequate guidance for avoiding future errors as is being assessed > about Singapore. > > This does not make light of the social/legal issues getting focus here. > Rather it is an attempt to move the consideration to something that can > be used as a clear decision-making policy. +1 We should have a complete set of criteria and preferably these should be added to draft-baker-mtgvenue-iaoc-venue-selection-process-02 so we have a full decision making matrix. We can also add different levels of importance to different criteria (MUST / SHOULD / MAY). Best, Niels -- Niels ten Oever Head of Digital Article 19 www.article19.org PGP fingerprint 8D9F C567 BEE4 A431 56C4 678B 08B5 A0F2 636D 68E9