Personally, I have three specific concerns with a meeting in China:
(1) The law and associated hotel rule Marshall quoted could be
violated by what may appear to IETF participants as technical
discussion. For example, the manipulation/censorship of Internet
traffic by or under orders of the Chinese government is well known.
If this were to be mentioned or discussed during the IETF, perhaps in
the context of encryption, tunneling, web proxy, DNS, or some other
technical area, we could run be violating the law and hence the rule.
(2) This is a very personal concern, but my experience with China is
that it is among the worst places to try and avoid tobacco smoke.
(3) Similarly to (2), my experience in Bejing has been that the air
is exceptionally polluted. Hence, I'd be concerned for those IETF
members who would find this makes participation difficult.
--
Randall Gellens
Opinions are personal; facts are suspect; I speak for myself only
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