On 1/29/17 9:03 PM, Roni Even wrote: > We should be active in selecting meeting venues and if people are > banned from traveling to the USA or any other country, it may not be > a meeting location based on > draft-ietf-mtgvenue-iaoc-venue-selection-process One thing that came out of the discussions about IETF 100 is that it may be the case that the IAOC meeting committee members may simply not be aware of local issues excluding different IETF demographics. This is a serious problem, so one of the goals is to make sure that there's a process in place that allows for IETF participants to know ahead of time which venues are under consideration and to provide feedback to the meetings committee. I believe the situation is not that it's okay with the meetings committee to exclude GLBT people, or Israelis, or any other group, but that they (for whatever reason) simply aren't aware of some of these problems. Personally, I think we need to reduce our dependence on in-person participation and do a better job on remote meetings and remote participation. But that's another topic for another mailing list. Melinda
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