Re: Local Beijing people response - RE: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-10-05 Thread Dean Willis
On Oct 2, 2009, at 12:27 PM, John C Klensin wrote: ... Perhaps the latter suggests a way for the IAOC to think about this. Assume that, however unlikely it is, the meeting were called off mid-way and that every IETF participant who attended sued the IASA to recover the costs of leaving China

Re: Local Beijing people response - RE: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-10-03 Thread Dean Willis
On Fri, October 2, 2009 3:55 pm, Noel Chiappa wrote: It's not clear that (self-)censorship is going to be the worst problem from an IETF in the PRC. One of the things I would be most concerned about is the PRC government using this meeting for propoganda purposes (either internal, or

Re: Local Beijing people response - RE: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-10-02 Thread Hui Deng
Dave, Thanks for your clarification, now I understand this has converged to a more contract language issue. At this stage, I may not be able to help on the detail languages since I guess the hoster or IAOC already have been deeply involved in it. Anyhow, I apprecaite that you make everybody more

Re: Local Beijing people response - RE: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-10-02 Thread Noel Chiappa
From: Hui Deng denghu...@gmail.com Lastly, I think that everybody have to self-censor about what he does. It's not clear that (self-)censorship is going to be the worst problem from an IETF in the PRC. One of the things I would be most concerned about is the PRC government using this

Re: Local Beijing people response - RE: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-10-02 Thread John C Klensin
--On Friday, October 02, 2009 11:55 -0400 Noel Chiappa j...@mercury.lcs.mit.edu wrote: It's not clear that (self-)censorship is going to be the worst problem from an IETF in the PRC. One of the things I would be most concerned about is the PRC government using this meeting for propoganda

Re: Local Beijing people response - RE: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-10-01 Thread Dave CROCKER
Hui, Hui Deng wrote: 1) I personally have attended several standardization meetings such as 3GPP and 3GPP2 in China, Many of us have attended meetings in China and we have found them productive and enjoyable. However all of those other groups conduct their business in a way that is

Re: Local Beijing people response - RE: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-10-01 Thread Steve Crocker
Dave, Are you suggesting the IETF is not mature enough to meet in China? After watching this thread for a while, I am beginning to be convinced. Steve On Oct 1, 2009, at 12:04 PM, Dave CROCKER wrote: Hui, Hui Deng wrote: 1) I personally have attended several standardization meetings

Re: Local Beijing people response - RE: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-10-01 Thread Dave CROCKER
Steve Crocker wrote: Are you suggesting the IETF is not mature enough to meet in China? After watching this thread for a while, I am beginning to be convinced. Wow. No. In fact, it completely misses what I said. Given how thoroughly I parsed the problems with the contract language, this

Re: Local Beijing people response - RE: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-10-01 Thread Bernard Aboba
Steve Crocker said: Are you suggesting the IETF is not mature enough to meet in China? After watching this thread for a while, I am beginning to be convinced. The IETF as an organization is mature enough to meet anywhere. However, IETF participation is open, so that attempting to predict

Re: Local Beijing people response - RE: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-10-01 Thread David Morris
On Thu, 1 Oct 2009, Bernard Aboba wrote: Steve Crocker said: Are you suggesting the IETF is not mature enough to meet in China? After watching this thread for a while, I am beginning to be convinced. The IETF as an organization is mature enough to meet anywhere. However, IETF participation

Re: Local Beijing people response - RE: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-10-01 Thread Michael Dillon
Some folk say that we should ignore the language in the draft contract, because it will not be enforced, except under extreme circumstances.  First, it is never appropriate for people signing a contract to assume that it won't be enforced, especially when they cannot really know the exact

Re: Local Beijing people response - RE: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-10-01 Thread Stephan Wenger
Hi, Four remarks: This is true, however there is another path that could be taken. Let the host sign the contract. Then, engage with the PRC government, explain the situation to them, and ask them to help avoid an embarrassing situation by providing assurances in writing, to the IETF, the

Local Beijing people response - RE: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-30 Thread Hui Deng
excuse me for previous sending wrong email. Hello, all I have to say something before the deadline of this survey. To be honest, I am not the hoster, but live in Beijing, China for the long time, and would like to clarify several different concerns about China and Beijing. 1)

Re: Local Beijing people response - RE: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-30 Thread Gene Gaines
Hui Deng's statement (below) is the most important I have read on the issue of a meeting in China. Re-read the Tao. The IETF is about building, developing, contributing to an Internet available to all. It is people, not governments. If you, personally, are afraid of China, I recommend you go