Happy to help if needed.
"Et s’il n’en reste qu’un, je serai celui-là !"
On 3/4/20 4:33 PM, Warren Kumari wrote:
On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 6:50 PM Robert Raszuk <robert@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
All,
We are aware that more companies have imposed travel restrictions and in
some cases
those are dependent on who else will be attending the conference.
As it has already started to happen today for BESS WG it only takes two
chairs to work for company which imposed travel policy not to be able to
travel to run the WG meeting. if they can not travel the WG meeting is
cancelled.
Simply because the chairs cannot make it does not automatically mean that
the WG meeting is cancelled -- WGs chairs can ask the WG secretary, or
appoint a temporary secretary or just ask an in-person participant to do
the physical onsite things, like bluesheets, pushing the big red button,
etc.
W
I quite do not understand how IETF director(s) keep the event ON in such
situation.
And what is worse - some meetings may be cancelled last minute or chairs
may be not able to travel last minute as well.
In what light does this put potential attendees ?
Many thx,
Robert.
On 3/4/20, 11:50 AM, "107all on behalf of IETF Executive Director" <
107all-bounces@xxxxxxxx on behalf of exec-director@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
This is a further update on IETF 107 Vancouver and the ongoing
situation with COVID-19 (Coronavirus).
It is still our intention to go ahead with IETF 107 Vancouver as the
public health advice remains that we do not need to cancel conferences in
Vancouver or avoid travel to Vancouver. The Public Health Agency of Canada
(PHAC) continues to classify the risk of infection in Canada as low [1] and
the World Health Organization (WHO) continues to recommend against travel
restrictions [2]. As shared earlier, special measures are being put into
place for IETF 107 in Vancouver following public health recommendations for
meetings of this nature [3].
We continue to monitor the situation and will respond quickly if the
public health advice changes. While it is clear that the situation is
deteriorating, the public health advice from the WHO, which is very
consistent and evidence-based, is that local containment of outbreaks is
both feasible and demonstrated to work. To hear more about the
evidence-based guidance being provided by the WHO we recommend watching a
WHO press briefing [4] or reading their daily situation reports [5].
We are aware that more companies have imposed travel restrictions and
in some cases those are dependent on who else will be attending the
conference. However, we will not be imposing travel restrictions on IETF
participants from specific countries or regions as it is for the Canadian
government to decide who can enter their country.
The current PHAC advisory page for visitors [6] is that those
arriving from Hubei province of China or from Iran should self-isolate for
14 days on arrival and monitor their health. That advisory may be updated
at any time and so we advise anyone travelling from a country with an
infection cluster to check that page before travel.
We continue to receive new registrations every day but those are now
being offset by cancellations and the number of registered in-person
participants is hovering at around 625 [7] with over 200 registered remote
participants. The Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) and IETF
Administration LLC continue to monitor the situation and the IESG is
currently seeking input from working group and research group chairs to
understand the extent of expected session cancellations.
If we are required to cancel then the IESG is considering options for
virtual meeting support, which it will report on in due course.
Please feel free to contact me directly if you have any questions or
comments.
[1]
https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/2019-novel-coronavirus-infection.html
[2]
https://www.who.int/ith/2019-nCoV_advice_for_international_traffic-rev/en/
[2] https://www.ietf.org/how/meetings/107/ietf107-health-measures/
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAo9Nooi69E (about 55 minutes in)
[4]
https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/situation-reports/
[5]
https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/2019-novel-coronavirus-infection/latest-travel-health-advice.html
[6] https://www.ietf.org/registration/ietf107/attendance.py
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