Re: IETF 100, IAOC perspective

> On 8 Jun 2016, at 7:00 PM, Behcet Sarikaya 
> <sarikaya2012(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 10:25 AM, Yoav Nir 
> <ynir(_dot_)ietf(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> wrote:
> > I doubt they will be able or willing to help much. “Your country is evil and 
> > discriminatory. What do you have to say about this?”  Besides, we’d be 
> > talking to the executive branch, while change tends to come from either the 
> > legislative or judicial. I also don’t believe it’s the job of the IETF to 
> > give “red face” to officials of host countries. Making a habit of this will 
> > make us about as welcome as the globalization protesters were 15 years ago.
> >
> > Deciding not to meet somewhere is one thing. Extending the agenda of 
> > meetings from just technical work to technical work plus political protest 
> > is not a good idea.
> +1 to both of the above points
>
> > The good outcome coming out of this is the decision to crowd-source the 
> > vetting of possible destinations such as [1]. A message such as this about 
> > Singapore would have prevented quite a bit of “red face” for the IAOC.
> I am not sure about this. I thought IOAC said it is difficult/costly
> to change Singapore venue at this moment.
Sorry. I meant, “A message such as this about Singapore **a year ago** would 
have prevented quite a bit..”

Somehow I forgot to type those three words.

Yoav