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Re: [IAOC] [IAB] Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-19 08:48:31

On Sep 18, 2009, at 4:44 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:

On 2009-09-19 08:08, Fred Baker wrote:

On Sep 18, 2009, at 12:29 PM, Henk Uijterwaal wrote:

I think it is safe to assume that the government did run some checks
on what the IETF is doing

The government has been negotiating to bring an IETF meeting to China
since 1997, and has been very carefully vetting the IETF's activities
for a long time. U betcha they know what we're doing.

Up to *at least* the level of a Vice Minister of the PRC Government, from my personal knowledge. Roughly the same level as the US Government's direct contact with the IETF, also from my personal knowledge. There is nothing sinister
there; we should be flattered.

However, I have a question to the IAOC: do we know if other standards meetings
such as 3GPP had to sign similar conditions before meeting in the PRC?


Dear Brian;

Please note that we would not be signing these conditions. The host would be.

We were told that these conditions apply to all conferences, without exception.

Whether or not other conferences have the same level of transparency as we do (i.e., whether the organizing committees know about these formal restrictions, and
communicate them to their attendees), I do not know.

Regards
Marshall

  Brian
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