I believe our US government would like to grant visas to as many
people as they can. However, if anyone wants to attend a meeting in
the US is granted a visa to come here, then I can imagine there will
be 100 million visa applications for the IETF meeting in CA next year
alone.
Quoting "Ross Callon" <rcallon(_at_)juniper(_dot_)net>:
I agree that this has been a significant issue, and that it is not
appropriate to have a large number of meetings in a location where a
significant number of potential attendees cannot get a visa to
attend. For this reason I have been an advocate of having a
disproportionate number of the North American meetings in Canada
rather than the USA (to me the Vancouver and Montreal locations have
been just as convenient as nearby US locations, and I assume that
there must also be suitable facilities in Toronto and elsewhere).
One thing that I wonder about is whether or not this will get better
with the change of administrations in January. Thus I would be
interested in hearing at the next two US IETFs (San Francisco in
March 2009, and Anaheim in March 2010) whether people have had an
easier time than they did at the current or past IETFs.
Ross
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From: 73attendees-bounces(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
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Sent: 18 November 2008 10:15
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Subject: Re: [73attendees] Is USA qualified for
2.3ofdraft-palet-ietf-meeting-venue-selection-criteria?
yes, it's really a problem that IETF meeting organizers should
seriously consider.
在您的来信中曾经提到:
From: "YAO" <healthyao(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com>
Reply-To:
To: <ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org>
Subject: [73attendees] Is USA qualified for 2.3 of
draft-palet-ietf-meeting-venue-selection-criteria?
Date:Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:24:41 +0800
according to IETF Meeting Venue Selection Criteria
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-palet-ietf-meeting-venue-selection-criteria-04#section-2.3
which said "
2.3. Freedom of Participation
Meetings should not be held in countries where some attendees could
be disallowed entry or where freedom of speech is not guaranteed for
all participants.
"
My question is :"
Is USA qualified for 2.3 of
draft-palet-ietf-meeting-venue-selection-criteria as
IETF Meeting Venue ?"
It seems that many IETFer are disallowed to enter USA for ietf
meeting when ietf
is held in USA this time or other times
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