Re: Legality of IETF meetings in PRC. Was: Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-10-12 Thread Eliot Lear
On 10/11/09 8:32 PM, Dave CROCKER wrote: I'm far more concerned that this thread has confused IETF goals and requirements for discussing meeting venues and that many of the postings are moving towards a precedent that the IETF really does not want to set. I strongly agree. I think mixing up

Re: Legality of IETF meetings in PRC. Was: Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-10-12 Thread Cullen Jennings
On Oct 7, 2009, at 2:07 AM, Henk Uijterwaal wrote: I agree. So-far, we have always assumed that discussions on crypto as well as writing, testing and using code during the meeting were legal in the country. And if they weren't, we'd assume that the local policy would not notice. Henk, just

Re: Legality of IETF meetings in PRC. Was: Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-10-12 Thread Henk Uijterwaal
Cullen Jennings wrote: On Oct 7, 2009, at 2:07 AM, Henk Uijterwaal wrote: I agree. So-far, we have always assumed that discussions on crypto as well as writing, testing and using code during the meeting were legal in the country. And if they weren't, we'd assume that the local policy would

Re: Legality of IETF meetings in PRC. Was: Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-10-11 Thread SM
Hi Ole, At 16:56 10-10-2009, Ole Jacobsen wrote: Since I am also not a US citizen, let me ask you a related question. Objectionable hotel clauses notwithstanding, some folks have argued that we should basically boycott China and not hold a meeting there for reasons ranging from Internet policies

Re: Legality of IETF meetings in PRC. Was: Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-10-11 Thread Stephan Wenger
Hi Doug, I'm not sure where you are getting with your comment. I would count myself as belonging into both of your categories. The IETF should not go to the PRC (or any other country with a similarly questionable human rights, free speech, and Internet restriction record) on principle, AND it

Re: Legality of IETF meetings in PRC. Was: Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-10-11 Thread Ole Jacobsen
Syephan, You said: I had a leadership role in a large, semi-political organization, I would not have argued strongly in favor or against a proposal on which the leadership asks the community for input. Not even in a private capacity. If that was aimed at me, then let me state for the

Re: Legality of IETF meetings in PRC. Was: Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-10-11 Thread Michael StJohns
Hi Ole - Sorry, but I read your comments as partisan as well. I took the use of boycott and what sort of message would we be sending in your recent messages as a clear bias in favor of going to the PRC. I'm not all that bothered about it per se, but it has been hard to tell when its Ole the

Re: Legality of IETF meetings in PRC. Was: Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-10-11 Thread Ole Jacobsen
Mike, Then I am afraid you really misread my comments. There are indeed folks who are suggesting that China should be avoided for political reasons (see the list for examples, I see no need to repeat it here), and I would characterize that as a boycott. This is completely separate from the

Re: Legality of IETF meetings in PRC. Was: Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-10-11 Thread Stephan Wenger
Hi Ole, Yes, my email was aimed at your frequent postings on this subject in combination with your current ISOC position. Let me note that most of your postings on this subject, in my reading, implied (if not expressed) a preference for a PRC IETF meeting. That said, it's good that you

Re: Legality of IETF meetings in PRC. Was: Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-10-11 Thread Dave CROCKER
Michael StJohns wrote: Hi Ole - Sorry, but I read your comments as partisan as well. I took the use of boycott and what sort of message would we be sending in your recent messages as a clear bias in favor of going to the PRC. I'm not going to comment on whether Ole has been appearing to

Re: Legality of IETF meetings in PRC. Was: Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-10-11 Thread Doug Ewell
Stephan Wenger stewe at stewe dot org wrote: I'm not sure where you are getting with your comment. I would count myself as belonging into both of your categories. The IETF should not go to the PRC (or any other country with a similarly questionable human rights, free speech, and Internet

Re: Legality of IETF meetings in PRC. Was: Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-10-11 Thread Doug Barton
Dave CROCKER wrote: I believe that the IETF has not previously challenged a venue on the basis of political or social concerns. We've sometimes challenged it for matters of logistics and cost, but not social policy. On the one hand I agree with you that determining where the IETF should or

Re: Legality of IETF meetings in PRC. Was: Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-10-11 Thread Doug Ewell
Ole Jacobsen ole at cisco dot com wrote: If that was aimed at me, then let me state for the record that I have not attempted to argue for or against the proposal, just tried to clarify what I think the issues are and what the underlying issues might be with respect to holding a meeting in

Re: Legality of IETF meetings in PRC. Was: Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-10-11 Thread Ole Jacobsen
On Sun, 11 Oct 2009, Doug Ewell wrote: I'd suggest reading your posts again. And I suggest you read the original message that started the whole discussion again, let me quote the relevant section: The members of the IAOC, speaking as individuals, do not like this condition as a matter of

Re: Legality of IETF meetings in PRC. Was: Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-10-11 Thread Michael StJohns
At 02:32 PM 10/11/2009, Dave CROCKER wrote: I believe that the IETF has not previously challenged a venue on the basis of political or social concerns. We've sometimes challenged it for matters of logistics and cost, but not social policy. I think it is an extremely dangerous precedent for us

Re: Legality of IETF meetings in PRC. Was: Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-10-10 Thread Noel Chiappa
From: John C Klensin john-i...@jck.com I can certainly remember times in the US in which discussions of certain types of cryptographic topics with foreign nationals present was treated as export of cryptographic technology and subject to all sorts of restrictions as a

Re: Legality of IETF meetings in PRC. Was: Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-10-10 Thread Ole Jacobsen
You said: (Let me apologize to the non-US people in the IETF for the US-centric nature of this part of this post. It's necessarily US-centric because the example cited in the message I'm replying to was US-centric. FWIW, I'm not a US citizen - I'm acturally Bermudian - so I am personally

Re: Legality of IETF meetings in PRC. Was: Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-10-10 Thread Theodore Tso
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 04:56:43PM -0700, Ole Jacobsen wrote: Since I am also not a US citizen, let me ask you a related question. Objectionable hotel clauses notwithstanding, some folks have argued that we should basically boycott China and not hold a meeting there for reasons ranging

Re: Legality of IETF meetings in PRC. Was: Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-10-10 Thread Ole Jacobsen
On Sat, 10 Oct 2009, Theodore Tso wrote: [snip] Perhaps a better way of putting things is that the IETF has various requirements for holding a successful meeting, and the question is how much of a guarantee we need that we can have a successful meeting, and hold certain conversations

Re: Legality of IETF meetings in PRC. Was: Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-10-09 Thread Patrick Suger
2009/10/9 Michael StJohns mstjo...@comcast.net In propaganda, your statement would probably be considered a black and white fallacy. In symbolic logic, it would just be a fallacy. For your statement to be always true, the first clause would have to read Since the IETF ONLY discusses how

Re: Legality of IETF meetings in PRC. Was: Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-10-09 Thread Margaret Wasserman
Hi David, On Oct 6, 2009, at 3:30 PM, David Morris wrote: To the best of my knowledge, in the countries you mention, there was no contractual risk that normal activities of the IETF would result in arbitrary cancelation of the remainder of the meeting. That is a good point. The

Re: Legality of IETF meetings in PRC. Was: Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-10-09 Thread Theodore Tso
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 07:04:43PM +0200, Patrick Suger wrote: I never thought it could be understood differently: anything different would be rude for ISOC. So, what you personnalité want is to be sure that whatever off topic you may want to discuss it will be permitted by the local law?

Re: Legality of IETF meetings in PRC. Was: Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-10-09 Thread Ole Jacobsen
On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, Theodore Tso wrote: I don't think anyone is actually saying this. What folks are in fact saying is that out of _respect_ of Chinese local law, which apparently makes illegal many things which normally would be discussed at IETF metings, maybe it wouldn't be a good

Re: Legality of IETF meetings in PRC. Was: Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-10-09 Thread Noel Chiappa
From: Michael StJohns mstjo...@comcast.net For the PRC we've been told (in black and white as part of a legal document - not as anecdotal information) that a) certain acts and topics of discussion are forbidden by law or contract ... ... With respect to ... any of

Re: Legality of IETF meetings in PRC. Was: Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-10-09 Thread Patrick Suger
Theodore, you will excuse me. I am afraid this discussion is not real. I am only interested in the Internet working better, all over the place, including in China and in the USA. 1) this lasting debate decreases the credibility of the IETF to be able to build such a network, at least in its

Re: Legality of IETF meetings in PRC. Was: Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-10-09 Thread Ole Jacobsen
On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, Patrick Suger wrote: 2) it also shows the lack of international experience of IETF. This is embarassing since it is supposed to keep developping the international network. It also seems that there is a particular lack of coordination with its sponsors. What is worrying

Re: Legality of IETF meetings in PRC. Was: Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-10-09 Thread John C Klensin
--On Friday, October 09, 2009 17:03 -0400 Noel Chiappa j...@mercury.lcs.mit.edu wrote: Interesting point. I can recall a number of countries with _export_ restrictions on some things, and perhaps one with a _use_ restriction, but I can't think of one where discuss[ion] or design[ing]

Re: Legality of IETF meetings in PRC. Was: Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-10-09 Thread Theodore Tso
On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 01:44:17PM -0700, Ole Jacobsen wrote: On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, Theodore Tso wrote: I don't think anyone is actually saying this. What folks are in fact saying is that out of _respect_ of Chinese local law, which apparently makes illegal many things which normally

Re: Legality of IETF meetings in PRC. Was: Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-10-09 Thread Richard Barnes
(g) many hurt Chinese engineers participate to the IETF and very politely do not react: have them been invited to comment? Everyone on the IETF mailing list has been invited to comment and that certainly includes Chinese engineers. Indeed, I wonder if there is something to be learned from

Re: Legality of IETF meetings in PRC. Was: Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-10-08 Thread Michael StJohns
At 04:07 AM 10/7/2009, Henk Uijterwaal wrote: (Personal opinion) On Mon, 5 Oct 2009, Margaret Wasserman wrote: While I do think that the IAOC should be aware of the potential legal implications of where we hold our meetings, I wonder if we are treating China unfairly in this discussion... I

Re: Legality of IETF meetings in PRC. Was: Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-10-08 Thread Patrick Suger
2009/10/9 Michael StJohns mstjo...@comcast.net So no, we're not treating China unfairly in this discussion. We're not holding China to a higher standard, we're questioning - as we must for due diligence - whether the standard to which they want to hold the IETF is too high or too disjoint

Re: Legality of IETF meetings in PRC. Was: Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-10-08 Thread Michael StJohns
In propaganda, your statement would probably be considered a black and white fallacy. In symbolic logic, it would just be a fallacy. For your statement to be always true, the first clause would have to read Since the IETF ONLY discusses how to make the Internet better and nothing else and

Re: Legality of IETF meetings in PRC. Was: Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-10-08 Thread Ole Jacobsen
I think there is general agreement that no normal IETF topic should have to be off limits for any IETF meeting in any location. We can argue about the finer details of what normal implies and we certainly need to establish that such speech would not get us in trouble. All that is happening

Re: Legality of IETF meetings in PRC. Was: Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-10-08 Thread Michael StJohns
At 09:55 PM 10/8/2009, Ole Jacobsen wrote: I think there is general agreement that no normal IETF topic should have to be off limits for any IETF meeting in any location. We can argue about the finer details of what normal implies and we certainly need to establish that such speech would not

Re: Legality of IETF meetings in PRC. Was: Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-10-08 Thread Ole Jacobsen
On Thu, 8 Oct 2009, Michael StJohns wrote: To rephrase in a way that you may not agree. We certainly need to establish that the environment of the site, host or country would not cause us or tend to cause us to modify our behavior away from that common to normal IETF meetings. It

Re: Legality of IETF meetings in PRC. Was: Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-10-07 Thread Henk Uijterwaal
(Personal opinion) On Mon, 5 Oct 2009, Margaret Wasserman wrote: While I do think that the IAOC should be aware of the potential legal implications of where we hold our meetings, I wonder if we are treating China unfairly in this discussion... I agree. So-far, we have always assumed

Re: Legality of IETF meetings in PRC. Was: Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-10-06 Thread David Morris
To the best of my knowledge, in the countries you mention, there was no contractual risk that normal activities of the IETF would result in arbitrary cancelation of the remainder of the meeting. On Mon, 5 Oct 2009, Margaret Wasserman wrote: While I do think that the IAOC should be aware of

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: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-10-01 Thread Ole Jacobsen
Scott, Your comments align very much with others that we have received privately, on the list, or through the survey. All of it is being considered very seriously and you can expect a progress report soon. As for alternative venues: since most IETF meetings depend on a host, we're not in a

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

Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-30 Thread Ray Pelletier
On Sep 30, 2009, at 10:41 AM, Hui Deng wrote: Does this survey still work?, I failed to do anything over there. Yes it does. What problems did you experience? We have had one other complain of Java problems, but he had an old Browser. Otherwise 343 have completed the survey successfully.

RE: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-30 Thread Hui Deng
Does this survey still work?, I failed to do anything over there. -Hui From: t...@americafree.tv To: ietf-annou...@ietf.org; ietf@ietf.org; wgcha...@ietf.org Subject: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:42:00

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

Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-30 Thread Hui Deng
Thanks Ray, Now I remember that I forget I have done that once already. that will be fine for me. Regards, -Hui 2009/10/1 Ray Pelletier rpellet...@isoc.org: On Sep 30, 2009, at 10:41 AM, Hui Deng wrote: Does this survey still work?, I failed to do anything over there. Yes it does. What

Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-29 Thread Dean Willis
On Sep 28, 2009, at 8:07 PM, Dave CROCKER wrote: Folks, A number of people have indicated that they believe the draft contract language is standard, and required by the government. It occurs to me that we should try to obtain copies of the exact language used for meetings by other

Re: [IAOC] Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-28 Thread Ole Jacobsen
Ole, Just want to make sure I understand this response fully. On Sep 24, 2009, at 12:05 AM, Ole Jacobsen wrote: There is absolutely NO intention or requirement to have any approval process for agendas or materials by a third party for this (proposed) meeting. The question about

Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-28 Thread Dave CROCKER
Folks, A number of people have indicated that they believe the draft contract language is standard, and required by the government. It occurs to me that we should try to obtain copies of the exact language used for meetings by other groups like ours. If indeed the language is

Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-28 Thread Tim Bray
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Dave CROCKER d...@dcrocker.net wrote: A number of people have indicated that they believe the draft contract language is standard, and required by the government. It occurs to me that we should try to obtain copies of the exact language used for meetings by

Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-28 Thread Dean Willis
On Sep 28, 2009, at 8:44 PM, Tim Bray wrote: On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Dave CROCKER d...@dcrocker.net wrote: A number of people have indicated that they believe the draft contract language is standard, and required by the government. It occurs to me that we should try to obtain

Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-27 Thread Scott Brim
Dean Willis allegedly wrote on 09/26/2009 1:04 PM: Because China's policy on censoring the Internet sucks, and we have a moral and ethical responsibility to make the Internet available despite that policy. rfc3935 says The mission of the IETF is to produce high quality, relevant

Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-27 Thread Dean Willis
Ole Jacobsen wrote: On Sat, 26 Sep 2009, Dean Willis wrote: Because China's policy on censoring the Internet sucks, and we have a moral and ethical responsibility to make the Internet available despite that policy. If this requires technology changes, then that technology is within our

Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-26 Thread Dean Willis
Ole Jacobsen wrote: On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, Eric Rescorla wrote: So, this isn't really that useful context for the rest of the paragraph. To take the example of encryption, I think people were arguing that it was a topic regarding human rights. With that said, it's not clear to me that

Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-26 Thread Dave CROCKER
Dean Willis wrote: The question: does meeting in China do more to further the goal of getting past PRC (and others) deplorable policies than does meeting elsewhere AND LETTING THE WORLD KNOW WHY WE ARE NOT MEETING IN CHINA. Dean, Sorry, but that is very much *not* the question. As a group

Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-26 Thread Ole Jacobsen
On Sat, 26 Sep 2009, Dean Willis wrote: Because China's policy on censoring the Internet sucks, and we have a moral and ethical responsibility to make the Internet available despite that policy. If this requires technology changes, then that technology is within our purview. If it

RE: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-26 Thread Ross Callon
Regarding the potential clause in the contract that has caused this discussion, which includes the text: ... Should there be any financial loss incurred to the Hotel or damage caused to the Hotel's reputation as a result of any or all of the above acts, the Hotel will claim

Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-24 Thread Theodore Tso
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 03:23:57PM -0400, Marshall Eubanks wrote: As far as I know, you are not a lawyer (please correct me if I am wrong). I am not a lawyer. Ole is not a lawyer. What use is any of us doing this analysis ? I might as well ask the IETF Counsel to produce a technical

Re: [IAOC] Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-24 Thread Alissa Cooper
Ole, Just want to make sure I understand this response fully. On Sep 24, 2009, at 12:05 AM, Ole Jacobsen wrote: There is absolutely NO intention or requirement to have any approval process for agendas or materials by a third party for this (proposed) meeting. The question about approval was

Re: [IAOC] Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-24 Thread Ole Jacobsen
Cullen, There is absolutely NO intention or requirement to have any approval process for agendas or materials by a third party for this (proposed) meeting. You've asked a bunch of good questions which deserve to be answered, but we need a little time to craft a response. Stay tuned. Ole On

Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-24 Thread Wes Hardaker
On Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:48:36 -0400, Michael StJohns mstjo...@comcast.net said: MS If your answer is - because there's some benefit to the IETF - I MS would then ask what else should we be willing to give up for other MS benefits and where should we draw the line? If we give up our normal

Re: [IAOC] Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-24 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 9/23/09 10:05 PM, Ole Jacobsen wrote: There is absolutely NO intention or requirement to have any approval process for agendas or materials by a third party for this (proposed) meeting. What do we mean by third party here? It seems risky to

Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-24 Thread Jari Arkko
Ted, I understand that it is very hard for a lawyer to tell us whether or not there is a guarantee that we will be safe, but if there is something that is clear on the face that might be unsafe, I think it takes a fairly large amount of handwaving to say, that's not something you need to worry

Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-24 Thread Theodore Tso
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 07:19:15PM +0300, Jari Arkko wrote: But more generally, there are no absolutely safe options, not in China and not elsewhere. I pretty much agree wit Marshall's analysis on the motives of the various parties in this particular case, and I'd have no problem with

Re: [IAOC] Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-24 Thread Ole Jacobsen
On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 9/23/09 10:05 PM, Ole Jacobsen wrote: There is absolutely NO intention or requirement to have any approval process for agendas or materials by a third party for this (proposed) meeting.

Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-23 Thread Ingemar Johansson S
Hi At first when I read the terms posted by Marshall Eubanks I sort of wanted to react with my reptile brain and boycott the whole thing. Looking in perspective however the idealistic part of me wants to believe that the Chinese people gains a lot more than they lose if the IETF visits China,

Re: [IAB] Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-23 Thread Dave Cridland
On Wed Sep 23 04:45:39 2009, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: Sigh, I will get a high Narten score this week It's worse if you digitally sign your messages... I always wondered why you did that. Dave. -- Dave Cridland - mailto:d...@cridland.net - xmpp:d...@dave.cridland.net -

Re: [IAB] Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-23 Thread Adam Roach
On 9/22/09 22:42, Sep 22, Ole Jacobsen wrote: I see absolutely NOTHING in the transcript of the IETF 75 session on net neutrality that I would consider disrespectful or demfamatory of any government. The problem is that you're looking for a needle in the portion of a haystack that happens to

Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-23 Thread Eric Rescorla
At Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:22:31 -0500, Pete Resnick wrote: On 9/22/09 at 2:50 PM -0400, Ray Pelletier wrote: The language in the contract is a statement of the law and is intended to put the Host and group on notice of such. If the language were not in the contract, it would still be the law.

Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-23 Thread Eric Rescorla
At Mon, 21 Sep 2009 07:01:22 -0700 (PDT), Ole Jacobsen wrote: On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, Eric Rescorla wrote: I'm not really following you here. I've read the stated contract terms and I'm concerned that they prohibit activities which may reasonably occur during IETF. Are you saying:

Re: [IAB] Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-23 Thread Scott Brim
Adam Roach allegedly wrote on 09/23/2009 9:28 AM: In my recollection, there is a semi-regular IETF participant who travels with a MacBook that has a Tibetan flag sticker prominently visible on the lid. Assuming you are correct, that is an individual statement. It will not be part of

Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-23 Thread Ole Jacobsen
On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, Eric Rescorla wrote: I'm sorry, I don't see the difference between (a) and (c). Either our activities violate the language of the contract or they don't. You say that you don't agree that our activities violate the language. If so, that's good news, but it would help if

Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-23 Thread Eric Rescorla
At Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:15:05 -0700 (PDT), Ole Jacobsen wrote: On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, Eric Rescorla wrote: I'm sorry, I don't see the difference between (a) and (c). Either our activities violate the language of the contract or they don't. You say that you don't agree that our activities

Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-23 Thread Ole Jacobsen
On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, Eric Rescorla wrote: So, this isn't really that useful context for the rest of the paragraph. To take the example of encryption, I think people were arguing that it was a topic regarding human rights. With that said, it's not clear to me that saying China's policy of

Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-23 Thread Eric Rescorla
At Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:17:04 -0700 (PDT), Ole Jacobsen wrote: On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, Eric Rescorla wrote: So, this isn't really that useful context for the rest of the paragraph. To take the example of encryption, I think people were arguing that it was a topic regarding human rights.

Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-23 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 9/23/09 12:17 PM, Ole Jacobsen wrote: On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, Eric Rescorla wrote: So, this isn't really that useful context for the rest of the paragraph. To take the example of encryption, I think people were arguing that it was a topic

Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-23 Thread Michael StJohns
At 02:17 PM 9/23/2009, Ole Jacobsen wrote: BUT I am at a loss to understand why such a statement would be a required part of our technical discussion. And I'm at a loss to understand why censoring such a statement (or ejecting an individual who says it, or terminating the IETF meeting in

Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-23 Thread Ole Jacobsen
Mike, My answer is that this is a judgement call and it forms part of the decision making tree that the IAOC has to make when selecting any venue. We have asked for community feedback in this case, and we've received it (or we are receiving it I should say). Personally, yes, I see the

Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-23 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Sep 23, 2009, at 2:23 PM, Eric Rescorla wrote: At Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:17:04 -0700 (PDT), Ole Jacobsen wrote: On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, Eric Rescorla wrote: So, this isn't really that useful context for the rest of the paragraph. To take the example of encryption, I think people were

Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-23 Thread Ole Jacobsen
That I can pretty much guarantee, plus a whole bunch of tasty alternatives to cookies and of course many variants of tea. Ole Ole J. Jacobsen Editor and Publisher, The Internet Protocol Journal Cisco Systems Tel: +1 408-527-8972 Mobile: +1 415-370-4628 E-mail: o...@cisco.com URL:

Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-23 Thread Cullen Jennings
On Sep 18, 2009, at 1:50 PM, Alissa Cooper wrote: On Sep 18, 2009, at 11:42 AM, Marshall Eubanks wrote: Should the contents of the Group's activities, visual or audio presentations at the conference,or printed materials used at the conference (which are within the control of the Client)

Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-23 Thread Dave CROCKER
Pete Resnick wrote: And I'll also note again that this contract is between the hotel and the host. The IAOC contract with either should explicitly include words indicating that the discussion of technical topics that touch on human rights issues are excluded from this clause. Pete,

Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-22 Thread Peny Yang
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:29 AM, Randall Gellens ra...@qualcomm.com wrote: At 5:45 PM +0800 9/21/09, Peny Yang wrote:  However, IMHO, your  experience may be the story 10 years ago. I am a smoker. When I would  like to smoke, I always go find the smoking corner.  Now, in Beijing, smoking is

Re: [IAB] Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-22 Thread Adam Roach
On 9/18/09 14:02, Sep 18, Paul Wouters wrote: Pre-emptively excluding countries based on culture, (perceived) bias, or other non-technical and non-organisation arguments is wrong. So if the visa issues are not much worse then for other countries, and an internet connection not hampered by a

Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-22 Thread Adam Roach
On 9/18/09 14:33, Sep 18, John G. Scudder wrote: [T]here would also seem to be a risk of loss of productivity due to self-censorship by people who do choose to attend. +1 /a ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org

Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-22 Thread L. Giuliano
Applying the usual disclaimer- this is my personal opinion, and doesn't reflect the views of any organization with which I may be affiliated: I do believe this provision is counter to the values and spirit of contribution toward the evolution of the Internet as a tool for open

Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-22 Thread Adam Roach
On 9/21/09 09:01, Sep 21, Ole Jacobsen wrote: On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, Eric Rescorla wrote: I'm not really following you here. I've read the stated contract terms and I'm concerned that they prohibit activities which may reasonably occur during IETF. Are you saying: (a) No, they don't

Re: [IAB] Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-22 Thread Stephen Farrell
On 22 Sep 2009, at 19:10, Adam Roach a...@nostrum.com wrote: On 9/18/09 14:02, Sep 18, Paul The conversation would be equally valid (and probably contain many of the same arguments) if we were being asked to make a substantially similar agreement to meet in, say, Ireland. Should the

Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-22 Thread Ray Pelletier
On Sep 22, 2009, at 2:45 PM, Adam Roach wrote: On 9/21/09 09:01, Sep 21, Ole Jacobsen wrote: On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, Eric Rescorla wrote: I'm not really following you here. I've read the stated contract terms and I'm concerned that they prohibit activities which may reasonably occur during

Re: [IAB] Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-22 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 9/22/09 12:10 PM, Adam Roach wrote: On 9/18/09 14:02, Sep 18, Paul Wouters wrote: Pre-emptively excluding countries based on culture, (perceived) bias, or other non-technical and non-organisation arguments is wrong. So if the visa issues are

Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-22 Thread Ole Jacobsen
I'm sure that's great advise from the lawyers, but you don't typically get to negotiate clauses that are required by national law. We'd obviously love to have it removed or reworded since this would remove any (some?) concern, but as Ray says, it's the law. Ole On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, Adam Roach

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