Le 13/02/2020 à 21:50, Richard Barnes a écrit :
On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 3:37 PM Kathleen Moriarty
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Hi Carsten,
There's one consideration you left out -
On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 3:18 PM Carsten Bormann <cabo@xxxxxxx
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On 2020-02-13, at 15:55, Kathleen Moriarty
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> That said, my travel is mostly booked and I am planning to
attend, but will watch to see what happens with any IETF
pandemic planning.
Which is what is probably true for most of us.
We already know that companies’ and countries’ policies will
place some limitations on the meeting (which actually is having
some limited impact on planning for the meeting). With the
knowledge we have today (2020-02-13), we can assume that we will
have a productive meeting, not the least because we have good
remote attendance possibilities for those who can’t (or choose
not to) make it.
On a health/responsibility level (and, again with the knowledge
of today), there simply is no reason to cancel the meeting. It
is still way more likely for an IETF attendee to have a traffic
accident than to be impacted by COVID-19.
Individuals from an entire nation likely cannot attend what is meant
to be a global meeting. This deserves some thought.
I agree that this is unfortunate, but I don't see how it follows from
this that nobody else should meet.
One could turn that question in many different ways.
Would G7 meet if 1 does not come?
There are many other ways in which to turn it.
Alex
--Richard
Best regards,
Kathleen
Now that knowledge we have today may change (a.k.a.
“surprises”), so the IETF leadership needs to stay in a position
to make different decisions based on emerging situations, and
new expert advice that may become available.
I still think of the plenary where it was announced that we
would meet in Korea and somebody went to the microphone with the
concern that North Korea could be attacking Seoul at any time.
Yes, COVID-19 can attack at any time, but it is just one of many
risks that we have to juggle.
Grüße, Carsten
--
Best regards,
Kathleen