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The Internet Engineering Task Force has taken the rare (and possibly costly) decision to relocate an upcoming meeting out of America.
IETF 102, scheduled for mid-2018, was booked for the San Francisco Hilton, but instead will be held in the Fairmont Hotel in Montreal.
The reason, as announced by IETF Administrative Oversight Committee (IAOC) chair Leslie Daigle, is the President Donald Trump administration: American travel restrictions make attendance uncertain.
[...] travel restrictions have been bounced around between the US legal system and the White House, and the Oversight Committee hasn't seen anything to reduce that uncertainty.
[...] it is impossible to know or predict the extent of the restrictions placed on individuals attempting to attend IETF 102 twelve months from now, or the level of uncertainty that will exist, and the impact that will have on the ability for the IETF to hold a successful meeting in the United States at that time. However, the current orientation and actions of the US government provide no basis for expecting conditions at the US border to improve for non-citizens.
[...] if the IETF cannot stage something in San Francisco, it will likely lose any deposit paid to the venue.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 17 2017, @04:55PM (1 child)
Stop with your stupid, please.
America lost control of the internet a long time ago. Your corporate masters outsourced it all a long time ago.
It's not about Trump, it's about keeping the people that took over for the USA involved with the processes the USA is no longer involved in.
Traditionally it stayed at its roots, but really that is not necessary anymore. Even Vint Cerf sold out. There is no one in the US that really would defend our rights anyway, and when people like you start using SJW as the reason, you may as well just stop talking now because your microscopic vision is not going to help deal with the big picture.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 17 2017, @06:36PM
There is no one in the US that really would defend our rights
Just a note here:
bradley13 is a USAian expatriate who has lived in Switzerland for some time.
His sniping comes from quite a distance.
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