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

Patrik Fältström <patrik@frobbit.se> Tue, 18 November 2008 16:29 UTC

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On 18 nov 2008, at 09.59, 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.

Having 100 million people paying the conference fee for the next IETF  
in San Francisco, just so they could get a 1-entry conference visa  
(which is what India offers at no cost for the IGF in Hyderabad),  
would radically change the economical situation for the IETF.

    Patrik

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