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

Scott Brim <sbrim@cisco.com> Tue, 18 November 2008 19:12 UTC

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Subject: Re: [73attendees] Is USA qualified for 2.3ofdraft-palet-ietf-meeting-venue-selection-criteria?
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Excerpts from Randy Bush on Tue, Nov 18, 2008 10:39:57AM -0600:
> 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.

How would you solve the problem?  Let 100 million people in on false
pretenses?  I'm not going to defend the behavior of the US government,
but I want you to admit that US immigration has a difficult problem.
Slinging labels around doesn't help.
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