I fully agree that we should have meetings at every country covered by the RIPE constituency, however, I think the community has the right to decide, when there are such kind of special conditions, if we want to have a meeting there or not.
Now is too late to change the meeting location, but we should learn from that for future locations with “special” conditions. I’ve been in Dubai already for a previous meeting, and for other reasons, and haven’t got any issue, but I don’t recall having needed to submit my passport up-front, even if I was a speaker, so it is really surprising. Regards, Jordi -----Mensaje original----- De: ripe-list <[email protected]> en nombre de Gordon Lennox <[email protected]> Responder a: <[email protected]> Fecha: miércoles, 5 de julio de 2017, 12:27 Para: <[email protected]> CC: Nigel Titley <[email protected]> Asunto: Re: [ripe-list] RIPE 75 - DTCM Requirements On 5 Jul 2017, at 11:01, Nigel Titley <[email protected]> wrote: can we move on? With respect - no. If it is OK to chat about coffee then it ought to be OK to chat about other things related to the meeting. It has already been pointed out that this meeting is atypical is several respects. I am intrigued by the requirement to supply a mini-CV. I am not clear where and when the bar-codes will be scanned. Any information there? Using the Internet in this region though has been problematic in the past, both in terms of content (mostly the usual stuff) and services/protocols (again mostly the usual stuff). So it seemed worthwhile to talk about the current situation, of which I presume NCC are quite aware. It was good to get Brian’s reassurance that access to the meeting network would be as usual, and by implication there will be no restrictions towards the rest of the Internet. By way of putting some of this in some kind of perspective I mentioned two other meetings. In Stockholm I was not entirely comfortable with the use of RFIDs. Maybe I have been to too many IETF meetings? In Beijing I was struck by the “bucket” solution - I should have guessed that Randy was involved. But it met both the requirements of the local authorities and of the IETF crowd. I wonder which one was harder to please? So probably still some questions. But I guess no rush. I hope nobody else will feel inhibited about writing though. And I sincerely hope Randy’s coffee needs are met! Gordon ********************************************** IPv4 is over Are you ready for the new Internet ? http://www.consulintel.es The IPv6 Company This electronic message contains information which may be privileged or confidential. The information is intended to be for the use of the individual(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this information, including attached files, is prohibited.
