On 4/10/2016 1:12 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
I repeat - "where" have the local hosts/laws specified conditions that resulted
in the IETF network content access being
>markedly different than that accessible to the random local citizen?
Why is that relevant? The criterion is: can the IETF do its work properly?
Of which a sub-criterion is: will there be clean unfettered Internet at
the meeting site?
A great deal of IETF work gets done away from the meeting site. Having
state-imposed restrictions away from the meeting site invites basic
productivity limitations.
It also is oddly dissonant with the IETF's general call for open and
unfettered access. We risk sounding a tad elitist if it means something
like "open and unfettered for us, but we're not concerned about you
other folk"...
To offer an intentionally extreme comparison, imagine having a desire
that children not be recruited to be soldiers. (Yes, I know, that's a
controversial point of view and many reasonable people think it's ok to
have children be slaughtered and do slaughtering in war...) But then
imagine choosing to go to a country that uses children that way,
formally. Is it reasonable to go there with the view that it's ok, as
long as they don't recruit any of /our/ children to be solders?
d/
--
Dave Crocker
Brandenburg InternetWorking
bbiw.net