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.
No, we shouldn't. Having such a statement will make people in the disqualified countries less accessible to ISOC activities and is against by-laws of ISOC that: The Internet Society's mission is to promote the open development, evolution, and use of the Internet for the benefit of all people throughout the world. We must acknowledge cultural diversity and have meeting with various locations with cultural diversity, which means culture to ban or damn LGBT must not be excluded. Masataka Ohta