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Re: [Mtgvenue] Comments on draft-baker-mtgvenue-iaoc-venue-selection-process-02

Dave Crocker <dcrocker@gmail.com> Mon, 07 November 2016 17:03 UTC

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On 11/7/2016 8:50 AM, Alissa Cooper wrote:
>> > The suggested language strikes me as... onerous.
>> >
>> > Do we really want that as a consensus statement?
> My understanding is that a significant number of venues we have used over the last several years have onerous entry regulations for Indian and/or Chinese nationals (and probably other nationalities as well, but those are the two largest IETF participant groups that I know of).


Yup.

But that leaves a basic question:

      What /pragmatic/ language can be used to guide the venue selection 
process, in a manner that has some chance of being /reliably/ acceptable 
to the community?

The current language lacks pragmatics, other than just acknowledging 
that our goals will (sometimes) fail.


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   Dave Crocker
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