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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: 5, Interesting) by bob_super on Monday July 17 2017, @11:30PM (1 child)
Let's not resolve to name calling ... The people/ideas formerly known as Alt-right have been officially Mainstream for the last 6 months (or 9, depends how you count).
Why call them Alt-wrong, when you could point out they are now Lamestream, Main-Right, or -gasp- Establishment?
(Score: 2, Informative) by turgid on Tuesday July 18 2017, @07:50AM
Calling them "Alt-Wrong Stupid Signallers" seems to touch the appropriate nerve.
So far they've given us Brexit and Fake President Pull-My-Finger of the People's Democratic Republic of America.
They proudly parade their ignorance in the most vociferous way, extolling broken 19th Century economic and social theories. They have made the Internet all but unusable for decent people.
If they prevail, they will succeed in setting our society back by approximately 150 years.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].