Re: Background on Singapore go/no go for IETF 100

[Dave Crocker <[e-mail]>]

On 5/26/2016 10:35 AM, Melinda Shore wrote:
> On 5/26/16 9:25 AM, Lawrence Conroy wrote:
>> As Ohta-san pointed out, there is no international consensus on single
>> sex marriage as a human right.
>
> This is not about recognition of same-sex marriage, and I
> expect that one of the reasons we're having difficulty making
> progress is that there's confusion on that point.


This highlights a basic challenge for the general topic under 
consideration. Some others have been pointing to the challenge, but I do 
not believe it yet has been clearly marked for action here:

        The nature of the current topic is to exclude from consideration 
as a venue those places with laws and/or policies and/or practices that 
are deemed by the IETF community to be unacceptable.

      We need a clear and complete statement of the social and legal 
realities that are to be used to disqualify a venue.  We need that 
statement to have IETF rough consensus.

Absent that agreed list, we are conducting random walk through an 
ambiguous decision-tree.  Certainly its absence leaves the IAOC with 
inadequate guidance for avoiding future errors as is being assessed 
about Singapore.

This does not make light of the social/legal issues getting focus here. 
Rather it is an attempt to move the consideration to something that can 
be used as a clear decision-making policy.

d/

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   Dave Crocker
   Brandenburg InternetWorking
   bbiw.net