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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: 3, Touché) by FatPhil on Monday July 17 2017, @07:11PM (1 child)
But the bradley post *did* have a counter-argument - that was the paragraph that followed the line that sent turgid into a tizz. You realise that you've just argued against turgid with the above line. And he's agreed with you. OK, it's wasn't a compelling argument but if you claim it didn't exist, that means you both turned your brains off (and presumably they were running in energy-saving mode already) as soon as you were triggered by the scary words in the first sentence.
Perhaps it's time to just sit back and watch you salt your own soil and further weaken your arguments' roots.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 17 2017, @08:30PM
The comment by bradley13 is simply bigotry.
He claims that one can determine an individual's technical utility by nationality/location.
One might also claim that everyone in the USA approves of The Orange Clown.
Both of those notions are ignorant, narrow-minded, and prejudiced.
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