On Oct 12, 2009, at 8:44 AM, Dave CROCKER wrote:
The questions constitute a denial of service attack on IETF
operations.
I really don't think so. I don't even think there's
a denial of service effect, regardless of intent. The
community was asked for feedback about meeting in the
PRC given what appears to be some pretty problematic
text in the hotel contract. I don't think that questions
about what that text actually might mean in practice are
inappropriate or disruptive. To the contrary - I think
it's quite clear from the discussion that there's not
a common understanding of the contract terms, or, for that
matter, even a common understanding of the questions
that were asked in the first place.
Personally, I don't know what I think although I'm
leaning towards thinking it's a bad idea if a hotel
employee can shut the meeting down if they don't
like the content or what some random attendee says
in the hallway. But - and this is a big but - I
don't know if I'm understanding the contract correctly.
And because of my own lack of clarity around the
terms of the contract I'm grateful for Cullen's questions,
which I think will help crystallize much of what's
under discussion.
Melinda
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