<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto">On Tue, 18 Jul 2017 at 02:34, Daniel Roesen <<a href="mailto:dr@cluenet.de" target="_blank">dr@cluenet.de</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Why are RIPE meetings held at places where active participation in form<br>
of talks require people from certain service area countries do something<br>
illegal, otherwise excluding them?</blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Idealy I would like to avoid that.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">But then it would also be very difficult, if not impossible, to find a location where everybody from the whole region can participate.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">For us "north west" european the Schengen area is easy, but not necessarily for our colleagues countries further east.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">This time we made the decision to hold the meeting in Dubai to make it easier for our community members in this part of our region to participate.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
Was this requirement known to the organizers before deciding on venue<br>
country?</blockquote><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">This requirement became known to the RIPE NCC and me after the decision had been made.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Rest assured that these kind of extraordinary requirements will be taken into consideration when selecting future meeting venues.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Hans Petter Holen</div><div dir="auto">RIPE Chair</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div></div>