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IETF Moves Meeting From USA to Canada to Dodge Trump Travel Ban

posted by Fnord666 on Monday July 17 2017, @12:03PM   
from the trumped-again dept.

-- OriginalOwner_ writes:

El Reg reports

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.

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• ''economic reality'' (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 17 2017, @07:20PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 17 2017, @07:20PM (#540499)

  WRT the deposit to the venue, I saw another article that I was going to submit under /dev/random and now realize is related to this topic.

  Hotel Refuses Refund for Woman's Canceled Wedding; She Invites Homeless to Dinner There [alternet.org]

  An Indiana bride-to-be, who canceled her wedding reception at a pricey hotel, is not going to let all of the food and cake go to waste. Instead, she is inviting local homeless families for dinner after failing to get her deposit back.

  According to the Indy Star, Purdue student Sarah Cummins, 25, and her fiance Logan Araujo, had a wedding planned at the Ritz Charles in Carmel, Indiana with a budget of $30,000 to cover the whole thing. After canceling the wedding (for unspecified reasons), Cummins was unable to get her deposit back.
  [...]
  According to Cummins, she has arranged for buses to [pick] up homeless families at local shelter for the dinner this weekend, where the attendees will dine on bourbon-glazed meatballs, goat cheese and roasted garlic bruschetta, chicken breast with artichokes and Chardonnay cream. And wedding cake, of course.

  -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

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