Stewart/Robert:
Hi!
Please don’t loose sight of this other piece of text in Jay’s message: "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.”
Yes, we are very aware of the restrictions, which can affect anyone and are looking into it.
The situation is obviously very fluid. Please bear with us.
Thanks!
Alvaro.
On March 5, 2020 at 5:17:41 AM, Stewart Bryant (stewart..bryant@xxxxxxxxx) wrote:
I must say I am becoming increasingly worried about the viability
of this meeting.
With the big company bans, it is not clear how many
of the senior leadership will be at the meeting. Is there a roll
call of IESG members that will be present?
There are 619 people registered for on-site. If we
discount those from companies that have already declared that they
are not permitting their staff to travel, what is the number?
Best regards
Stewart
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.
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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