[ripe-list] choosing locations for RIPE meetings

> On 5 Jul 2017, at 11:50, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ <jordi.palet at consulintel.es> wrote:
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> I think the community has the right to decide, when there are such kind of special conditions, if we want to have a meeting there or not.

Nope.

The community can and should decide the general principles for a meeting host or location -- open to everyone, no bar-coding or DNA sampling of attendees, no excessive demands for Personal Data, decent flight connections, affordability, etc, etc. It’s then up to The Management to apply those principles when they choose a venue. The community can’t and shouldn’t interfere in such matters of implementation detail. Just imagine how hard it would be to get the RIPE community to reach consensus on where its meetings are held.

If the numbers for RIPE75 are down or too many people complain about Dubai’s rules, I’m sure that will be remembered for the next time RIPE comes to the gulf region.