I guess there are enough of us who are ready to give you money to compensate
for that $150k.
Marie-Jose
On May 25, 2016, at 7:09 PM, Margaret Cullen
<margaretw42(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> wrote:
I understand that this is a very difficult situation, but I think you have
left something important out of your list of pros and cons. If we cancel the
Singapore meeting, we get to say _this_ to the Singapore government, who
wants us to meet there enough that they have offered us $150K in incentives
for us to come there:
“ Singapore laws against same-sex relationships between men and
preventing the recognition of same-sex marriages could create
difficulties for same-sex partners and their children; these have
discouraged affected members of our community from participating
at the IETF meeting in November of 2017 and have also influenced
others to decline to attend in principled solidarity with them.
Accordingly, the IETF has decided to postpone indefinitely the meeting
in Singapore and is pursuing alternative venues.”
If, instead, we hold this milestone meeting in Singapore despite the fact
that these issues have been raised, we are sending the message that we
consider basic human rights violations to be no more of a disincentive to
visiting a particular venue than visa issues, cost considerations, or other
items that have been raised in this discussion as examples of why “no venue
is perfect”.
Margaret
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