Re: [Recentattendees] Background on Singapore go/no go for IETF 100

> 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”.
If we were to go down this path, principled as it might be, is there anywhere 
we can meet physically at all?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/11381744/How-the-world-violates-human-rights-country-by-country.html

I can't think of many countries that aren't violating basic human rights in 
some way or the other...

Ole

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