Re: [73attendees] Is USA qualified for 2.3ofdraft-palet-ietf-meeting-venue-selection-criteria?

Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Tue, 18 November 2008 16:40 UTC

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qdang@nist.gov wrote:
> I believe our US government would like to grant visas to as many
> people as they can. However, if anyone wants to attend a meeting in
> the US is granted a visa to come here, then I can imagine there will
> be 100 million visa applications for the IETF meeting in CA next year
> alone.

thank you for demonstrating so clearly the jingoistic prejudice at the
us government level that should preclude ietf being held in the united
states.

randy
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