[ipv6-wg] IMPORTANT: RIPE75 is SPECIAL (call for presentations)

On Tue, Jul 4, 2017 at 8:04 AM, Fernando Gont <fgont at si6networks.com> wrote:

[WG chairs hat OFF]

> Just out of curiosity: Why should a remote presenter provide a passport?

Whatever I say will be just a guess, how can I speak for the UAE government?
My guess would be that they want to make sure that remote presenters
are not using pseudonyms.
What if I submit a remote presentation as Fernando Gont and start
advocating inserting Ipv6 extension headers on the fly, for example?
;)))

> That seems to me like a weird requirement to me, and possibly even hard
> to enforce (unless there's someone watching a video stream and checking
> if they have a copy of the passport for that person?). And, if the
> person is not traveling anyway, he/she might not even have a passport in
> the first place.

I'd expect that some other form of government-issued ID would do - but
again, I'm speculating.

> (yes, I understand you're just the messenger :-) )

Thanks, highly appreciated ;)

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SY, Jen Linkova aka Furry