#1 - all the other meetings I've been in in China, including ones that
talked about 'unfriendly firewall traversal' seemed to be ignored. YMMV.
#2 & #3 - this is very, very, very true. For those who remember the
conference hotel in Prague, Beijing air makes Prague look like a
bastion of healthy living and fresh air. Worse yet, the Beijing
geography is similar to LA, except with even more industrial pollution
and more impact from the nearby desert.
On Sep 20, 2009, at 9:42 PM, Randall Gellens wrote:
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.
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Randall Gellens
Opinions are personal; facts are suspect; I speak for myself
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