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

On 07/04/2017 04:28 AM, Jen Linkova wrote:
> 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.

Well.. how can they possibly know that the identity is real? :-)  Will
they compare the guy on video with the pic on the passport?  And if the
guy on the video doesn't look like the guy on the passport? Ask the
organizer to bloc the presentation real time? Sanction the organizer
afterwards?

Besides, if the remote presenter doesn't have a passport..what?
National IDs are virtually impossible even to check even in the
slightest way...


> 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.

Not that long ago, we could use the same ID we got when 16-years-old for
our whole life... If I'd provide that one, you'd probably better of fail
assuming that it was a fake I-D. :-)



>> (yes, I understand you're just the messenger :-) )
> 
> Thanks, highly appreciated ;)

;-)

Cheers,
-- 
Fernando Gont
SI6 Networks
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