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Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meetingof the IETF

2009-10-11 18:31:58


Cullen Jennings wrote:
I carefully stayed away from social policy issues

1) What is political speech in China?
...
>> 2) Are there any special rules about publishing and broadcasting? I
...
>> 5) When discussing what I think of as technical issues, many
>> participants regularly treat Taiwan and PRC as two different countries
...
>>      Could any discussions like
>> this be viewed as political speech? What are the rules on this?


This is your version of staying away from social policy?

If it is, I suspect that what is first needed are lessons in the nature of social and political policy.

I suspect you -- and most of the rest of us -- can't give a definitive answer to these questions for any other venue the IETF has ever met in. As a small example, I doubt many of us have a meaningful clue about the detailed impact of the US's Patriot Act as it changed basic freedoms's for citizens, nevermind non-citizens.

Really, Cullen, it's difficult to overemphasize just how basic a mistake it is for us to pursue your questions.

d/
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  Dave Crocker
  Brandenburg InternetWorking
  bbiw.net
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