Re: [107all] Update on IETF 107 Vancouver and COVID-19

Same here, would be happy to help. Still planning to be in Vancouver.

On 4 Mar 2020, at 21:50, Marc Petit-Huguenin wrote:

> Happy to help if needed.
>
> "Et s’il n’en reste qu’un, je serai celui-là !"
>
> On 3/4/20 4:33 PM, Warren Kumari wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 6:50 PM Robert Raszuk <robert@raszuk.net> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> All,
>>>
>>>> We are aware that more companies have imposed travel restrictions 
>>>> and in
>>> some cases
>>>> those are dependent on who else will be attending the conference.
>>>
>>> As it has already started to happen today for BESS WG it only takes 
>>> two
>>> chairs to work for company which imposed travel policy not to be 
>>> able to
>>> travel to run the WG meeting. if they can not travel the WG meeting 
>>> is
>>> cancelled.
>>>
>>
>> Simply because the chairs cannot make it does not automatically mean 
>> that
>> the WG meeting is cancelled -- WGs chairs can ask the WG secretary, 
>> or
>> appoint a temporary secretary or just ask an in-person participant to 
>> do
>> the physical onsite things, like bluesheets, pushing the big red 
>> button,
>> etc.
>>
>> W
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> I quite do not understand how IETF director(s) keep the event ON in 
>>> such
>>> situation.
>>>
>>> And what is worse - some meetings may be cancelled last minute or 
>>> chairs
>>> may be not able to travel last minute as well.
>>>
>>> In what light does this put potential attendees ?
>>>
>>> Many thx,
>>> Robert.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> On 3/4/20, 11:50 AM, "107all on behalf of IETF Executive 
>>>> Director" <
>>>> 107all-bounces@ietf.org on behalf of exec-director@ietf.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>      This is a further update on IETF 107 Vancouver and the ongoing
>>>> situation with COVID-19 (Coronavirus).
>>>>
>>>>      It is still our intention to go ahead with IETF 107 Vancouver 
>>>> as the
>>>> public health advice remains that we do not need to cancel 
>>>> conferences in
>>>> Vancouver or avoid travel to Vancouver.  The Public Health Agency 
>>>> of Canada
>>>> (PHAC) continues to classify the risk of infection in Canada as low 
>>>> [1] and
>>>> the World Health Organization (WHO) continues to recommend against 
>>>> travel
>>>> restrictions [2].  As shared earlier, special measures are being 
>>>> put into
>>>> place for IETF 107 in Vancouver following public health 
>>>> recommendations for
>>>> meetings of this nature [3].
>>>>
>>>>      We continue to monitor the situation and will respond quickly 
>>>> if the
>>>> public health advice changes.  While it is clear that the situation 
>>>> is
>>>> deteriorating, the public health advice from the WHO, which is very
>>>> consistent and evidence-based, is that local containment of 
>>>> outbreaks is
>>>> both feasible and demonstrated to work.  To hear more about the
>>>> evidence-based guidance being provided by the WHO we recommend 
>>>> watching a
>>>> WHO press briefing [4] or reading their daily situation reports 
>>>> [5].
>>>>
>>>>      We are aware that more companies have imposed travel 
>>>> restrictions and
>>>> in some cases those are dependent on who else will be attending the
>>>> conference.  However, we will not be imposing travel restrictions 
>>>> on IETF
>>>> participants from specific countries or regions as it is for the 
>>>> Canadian
>>>> government to decide who can enter their country.
>>>>
>>>>      The current PHAC advisory page for visitors [6] is that those
>>>> arriving from Hubei province of China or from Iran should 
>>>> self-isolate for
>>>> 14 days on arrival and monitor their health.  That advisory may be 
>>>> updated
>>>> at any time and so we advise anyone travelling from a country with 
>>>> an
>>>> infection cluster to check that page before travel.
>>>>
>>>>      We continue to receive new registrations every day but those 
>>>> are now
>>>> being offset by cancellations and the number of registered 
>>>> in-person
>>>> participants is hovering at around 625 [7] with over 200 registered 
>>>> remote
>>>> participants.  The Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) and 
>>>> IETF
>>>> Administration LLC continue to monitor the situation and the IESG 
>>>> is
>>>> currently seeking input from working group and research group 
>>>> chairs to
>>>> understand the extent of expected session cancellations.
>>>>
>>>>      If we are required to cancel then the IESG is considering 
>>>> options for
>>>> virtual meeting support, which it will report on in due course.
>>>>
>>>>      Please feel free to contact me directly if you have any 
>>>> questions or
>>>> comments.
>>>>
>>>>      [1]
>>>> https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/2019-novel-coronavirus-infection.html
>>>>      [2]
>>>> https://www.who.int/ith/2019-nCoV_advice_for_international_traffic-rev/en/
>>>>      [2] 
>>>> https://www.ietf.org/how/meetings/107/ietf107-health-measures/
>>>>      [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAo9Nooi69E (about 55 
>>>> minutes in)
>>>>      [4]
>>>> https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/situation-reports/
>>>>      [5]
>>>> https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/2019-novel-coronavirus-infection/latest-travel-health-advice.html
>>>>      [6] https://www.ietf.org/registration/ietf107/attendance.py
>>>>
>>>>      --
>>>>      Jay Daley
>>>>      IETF Executive Director
>>>>      exec-director@ietf.org
>>>>
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>>>>
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