Glen,
I am NOT arguing against holding a meeting in Thailand if we find a
suitable venue, sponsors, available dates and all that. I was merely
pointing out that companies and governments tend to over-react and
issue blanket warnings and bans for places with the kind of unrest we
are talking about. The APNIC meeting is a classic illustration of the
problem: a relatively small (but violent) protest in one part of
Bangkok basically ends up turning all of Thailand into a no-go zone
for a very long time.
Since I have not hear a single word of news from Thailand for a long
time (apart from that story about the jailed American author), I
assume things are "just fine" there nowadays. Human trafficking
nothwithstanding :-)
Ole
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On Wed, 10 Aug 2011, Glen Zorn wrote:
On 8/10/2011 3:06 PM, Ole Jacobsen wrote:
...
I would NOT want to be in the business of moving an IETF meeting 2
months before the event.
Certainly not, but all hell can break loose with little or no warning
virtually anywhere (see
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/08/london_riots.html).
...
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