Re: Concerns about Singapore

[Randy Bush <[e-mail]>]

>> it was clean unfettered Internet.  some local folk stuck their necks out
>> very far to accomplish this.  it was definitely different than one got
>> outside of the ietf meeting network.  this has been a condition placed
>> on hosts and beijing was no exception.
> 
> This surprises me - "this has been a condition placed on hosts...". 

it was even in the hour of embarrassing babble fred used to prevent
people from talking about real problems at the bof

> Could you enlighten us as to which [and I'll try to be precise here]
> other IETFs had a condition where the content accessible by the IETF
> network was markedly different from the content of say the network at
> a local Starbuck's equivalent wifi hot spot just down the street from
> the IETF and where that was mandated by the hosts and/or local laws?
> I mean besides Beijing?  Key words "markedly different" and "content
> accessible".

we don't specify it's 'different'.  among other silly distractions, it
would require a 'different from precisely what and in what ways?'

we simply specifiy open and unfettered

rndy