Hi Vinayak,
At 01:46 25-05-2016, Vinayak Hegde wrote:
I think the visa issue affects a large portion of participants
(non-US/non-EU), yet it is hardly discussed as much on the IETF
mailing lists. I hope that the IAOC is taking that into consideration.
I also think it is rather more important than issues about getting
families to the IETF (which I believe is a perk and not a necessity).
I think we need to focus more on getting participants to the physical
meetings.
We talk about sharing the "travel pain". Visas is an important pain
point for number of Non-EU/Non-US countries.
I read the first quoted paragraph as meaning that non-US/non-EU IETF
participants hardly discuss about visa issues on this mailing
list. There were 20 messages to the venue-selection(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org "drop"
list. None of those messages were from non-US/non-EU IETF
participants with concerns about visa issues.
At 01:17 25-05-2016, Sandoche Balakrichenan wrote:
==> If the Visa issue has been seriously taken into consideration by the
IAOC, i think we should never had an IETF in the US. Ask the number of
students/professionals from Asian and Arab Countries, the harrassment
they pass through from the US embassy just to get a Visa.
The issue being discussed on ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org has political
implications.
Regards,
S. Moonesamy