This surprises me - "this has been a condition placed on hosts...".
Could you enlighten us as to which [and I'll try to be precise here]
other IETFs had a condition where the content accessible by the IETF
network was markedly different from the content of say the network at a
local Starbuck's equivalent wifi hot spot just down the street from the
IETF and where that was mandated by the hosts and/or local laws?
A basic issue that seems to distinguish a number of venue concerns is
whether constraints are state-imposed or are only the choice of the
local site operator. Negotiating variations for site-imposed
constraints is fundamentally different and fundamentally more
problematic (or impossible) than for state-imposed ones.
As far as I'm aware, Beijing has been the only venue where Internet
access issues ran into state-imposed restrictions.
If I've heard folk correctly, that distinction seems to be the essence
of what is being expressed against Singapore.
d/
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Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net