On Sat, 28 Jan 2017, Emily Shepherd wrote:
The IETF is the Internet Engineering Task Force. This is not an Internet Engineering issue and thus not appropriate discussion for the IETF.
Seeing how we had a pretty big discussion about Singapore, I do think this is a very appropriate discussion. Not only is it important that future venues still comply with our requirements, which are discussed at mtgvenue, but there is also a direct financial link with the attendance number. If people cannot come, or refuse to come out of solidarity, it will simply cost the IETF money when the meeting runs at a larger loss. And while most will agree there is nothing to be done for Chicago, I think it would be prudent for the IAOC to look into alternatives for IETF-102 next year which is currently scheduled to be in San Francisco, as well as take this new information into consideration when deciding venues for 2019-2020. Personally, I will not attend IETF-98 if there are any race or religious restrictions in place regardless of whether these apply to me personally. Paul