Same here, would be happy to help. Still planning to be in Vancouver.
On 4 Mar 2020, at 21:50, Marc Petit-Huguenin wrote:
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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