Re: [Mtgvenue] Open issue: legal discrimination based on status/identity

[Dave Crocker <[e-mail]>]

On 1/27/2017 5:50 PM, Melinda Shore wrote:
> The problem we're
> trying to solve with respect to venue selection is to establish
> policies that define conditions that can or should be met
> that allow IETF participants to travel to meetings
> without consistently placing undue burdens on some subset.


The IAOC has, at least once, chosen to decline from exploring an 
otherwise-very appealing venue that had onerous visa policies, which 
targeted exactly one country's citizens, and which would have affect 
perhaps one IETF attendee at that time.

(A challenge with the constraint to focus on 'attendees' is the desire 
to encourage new attendees, from everywhere.)

I don't know where the IETF should draw the line on selecting venues 
with respect to this kind of concern.  I don't believe it is possible to 
write a clear, precise, adequate rule that covers all such cases.  And 
so, for example, I don't know whether the US's latest action should 
preclude going to US venues.[*]

That's why I'm so fond of merely having the IETF community use its 
aggregate voice during an early city review query.


d/

[*] 
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/27/world/middleeast/trump-visa-muslim-ban.html
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   Dave Crocker
   Brandenburg InternetWorking
   bbiw.net