[Chapter-delegates] Moving ahead on visas & preserving access to our meetings

[Eileen Gallagher]

Kathy, Dave et al,

while it doesn't solve all issues, can I roll out a 'green carpet' from 
Ireland to welcome any meeting for the community that may be displaced. 
In 2015 we (INEX the organisation I work with day to day) were pleased 
to host the ICANN meeting in Dublin. We were even more delighted with 
the huge support we received from the Depts of Foreign Affairs and 
Justice in welcoming and extending visas to an extremely broad range of 
nationalities to attend the meeting. From conversations with ICANN 
leadership during the meeting, I understand it was one of the most 
broadly represented meetings held for ICANN, with an especially large 
delegation from Iran.

At a practical level, if I, or indeed the various organisations that 
support overseas meetings in Ireland, can assist with hosting meetings 
here in Ireland, don't hesitate to get in contact. We have an 
organisation here in Dublin (Dublin Convention Bureau) that is tasked 
with facilitating overseas meeting, so happy to make those introductions 
and they provide a free service to investigate options.

There's always a welcome here in Ireland so let us know if we can help.

Best wishes

Eileen

On 31/01/2017 11:11, Kathy Brown wrote:
> Dave,
> These are very helpful comments. I am talking with and listening 
> closely to all parts of our community.  Any other thoughts from this 
> list would be timely.
> Our Board is engaged; I am in contact with Jari and others.  Watching 
> closely U.S. judicial review and domestic and international response. 
>  Working through next steps as the situation evolves.
> Will keep in touch here with all of you.
> Kathy
>
>
>
> On Jan 30, 2017, at 5:19 PM, Dave Burstein <daveb at dslprime.com 
> <mailto:daveb at dslprime.com>> wrote:
>
> Kathy and folk
>
> It was very good to see the comment. The folks on this list know what 
> the issues are, so the question is what to do about them. We need more 
> than high order principles here.
>
> I suggest the board at the meeting this week pass a simple resolution 
> like the following.
>
> "ISOC meetings should be held where few, if any, of our members will 
> be blocked from attending. The temporary U.S. visa requirements 
> definitely prevent our board member Walid AL-SAQAF from attending and 
> require other board members to go through "Extreme vetting." (Trump 
> quote) If these become permanent, we will follow the lead of the IETF, 
> who "are already reviewing what to do as far as location for the next 
> open North American meeting slot." 
> https://www.ietf.org/blog/2017/01/barriers-to-entry/ Jeri Arkko, 
> Andrew Sullivan, Leslie Daigle
>
> That's very simple, commits us to nothing, and should immediately find 
> support on the board. Clearly, moral and rational arguments are having 
> little effect. Time to try financial ones, particularly those that 
> affect the hotel business.
> ------------------------
> I also believe CEO Brown or Chairman Camarillo should immediately tell 
> IETF Chair Arkko that he can freely call on the resources of ISOC. We 
> have a large communications staff including pr pros who can support IETF.
>
> In the IETF discussion, several pointed to their lack of resources and 
> suggested IETF look to ISOC for help. I believe our $30M subsidy from 
> .org registrations was originally intended to support IETF but I doubt 
> even 10% goes there today.
>  -------------------------
>
> Datapoints:
> ICANN board member Kevah Ranjbar already was blocked from his flight 
> to Los Angeles for a board event. He will be unable to attend IETF 
> Chicago as IAB's liaison the the IAOC, despite having a Dutch passport 
> and U.S. visa. (Born in Iran.) This is affecting us already.
> ----
> Natives of Pakistan, Afganistan, Saudia Arabia, and probably Egypt & 
> Kenya also will find it somewhere between difficult and impossible to 
> come. Trump said they will face "Extreme vetting. It’s going to be 
> very hard to come in. You’re going to see. You’re going to see. We’re 
> going to have extreme vetting in all cases. And I mean extreme." It's 
> not just the first seven countries.
> ---------
> 44 Nobel Laureates have signed the petition at 
> https://notoimmigrationban.com/. So have all the Fields Medelists 
> since 1990, including Elon Lindenstrauss of the Hebrew University and 
> Iranian-American Maryam Mirzakhani of Stanford. 9,000 U.S. faculty 
> have also signed. The number is rising almost hourly.
>
> Dave Burstein
>
>
>
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