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

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.

Quoting "Ross Callon" <rcallon@juniper.net>et>:

> I agree that this has been a significant issue, and that it is not  
> appropriate to have a large number of meetings in a location where a  
> significant number of potential attendees cannot get a visa to  
> attend. For this reason I have been an advocate of having a  
> disproportionate number of the North American meetings in Canada  
> rather than the USA (to me the Vancouver and Montreal locations have  
> been just as convenient as nearby US locations, and I assume that  
> there must also be suitable facilities in Toronto and elsewhere).
>
> One thing that I wonder about is whether or not this will get better  
> with the change of administrations in January. Thus I would be  
> interested in hearing at the next two US IETFs (San Francisco in  
> March 2009, and Anaheim in March 2010) whether people have had an  
> easier time than they did at the current or past IETFs.
>
> Ross
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: 73attendees-bounces@ietf.org  
> [mailto:73attendees-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of ???
> Sent: 18 November 2008 10:15
> To: healthyao@gmail.com; ietf@ietf.org
> Cc: 73attendees@ietf.org
> Subject: Re: [73attendees] Is USA qualified for  
> 2.3ofdraft-palet-ietf-meeting-venue-selection-criteria?
>
> yes, it's really a problem that IETF meeting organizers should  
> seriously consider.
>
>
>
> 在您的来信中曾经提到:
>> From: "YAO" <healthyao@gmail.com>
>> Reply-To:
>> To: <ietf@ietf.org>
>> Subject: [73attendees] Is USA qualified for 2.3 of
> draft-palet-ietf-meeting-venue-selection-criteria?
>> Date:Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:24:41 +0800
>>
>>
>>
>> according to IETF Meeting Venue Selection Criteria
>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-palet-ietf-meeting-venue-selection-criteria-04#section-2.3
>>
>> which said "
>>
>> 2.3.  Freedom of Participation
>>
>>    Meetings should not be held in countries where some attendees could
>>    be disallowed entry or where freedom of speech is not guaranteed for
>>    all participants.
>> "
>>
>> My question is :"
>>
>> Is USA qualified for 2.3 of  
>> draft-palet-ietf-meeting-venue-selection-criteria as
> IETF Meeting Venue ?"
>>
>> It seems that many IETFer are disallowed to enter USA for ietf  
>> meeting when ietf
> is held in USA this time or other times
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