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G’day Mark I agree we have a problem in that we do not know what the travel advisories will say in the future. This makes it very difficult to plan future meetings, given the need to make commitments well
ahead of the actual meeting. However, IMHO, we should never expose our members’ health and safety to our (mostly uninformed) guesses. I have no issue in continuing to plan a meeting based on a guess about what future travel advisories might say. However, the F2F meeting needs to be cancelled if that guess turns out to be incorrect
at the point we need to make a go/no go decision for contractual or practical reasons. Andrew From: mark.hamilton2152@xxxxxxxxx <mark.hamilton2152@xxxxxxxxx>
Andrew, In my opinion, what we are asking is for the membership to “guess” whether what you describe below will still be the conditions as of September. Sure, many countries are “reconsider/do not travel” right now, and I would
agree with you that it is unreasonable to expect our members to travel under those conditions. But, will that still be the case in September? I don’t know how any of us can make such a guess. So, I think the question we really are facing is how much advance notice do we have to have, to make travel reasonable/practical for members, once we have reached some point at which we can “guess” with a high degree
of confidence. If we wait until June to make this decision, is that still okay in terms of planning/arranging travel? 3 months seems like enough, to me, but I don’t have the challenges that I know some others do in arranging travel. But, I could well imagine
that by June things will have changed/will be clearly changing, such that our “guess” will be more accurate. Mark From: *** IEEE stds-802-11-cac List *** <STDS-802-11-CAC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Behalf Of Andrew Myles (amyles) --- This message came from the IEEE 802.11 Chairs' Advisory Committee Reflector ---
G’day all The results below are relatively clear that a Sept F2F meeting is not viable/reasonable. However, it does highlight the question of what is our criteria for restarting F2F meetings? Given we are an international SDO, my view is that we should take into account the accessibility of F2F locations to our members internationally.
One way of doing this is to consider government travel advisories. Using the USG as an example, most of the world is rated as:
Many/most countries currently rate the US as Level 3 or Level 4 too. It is not reasonable to ask our members to visit countries contrary to government advice. Members in many of these countries are practically not allowed to visit the US
and other countries, both by rules in their home country and the destination country. There are a bunch of Level 2 countries based on the USG rating (some surprising), including a few that IEEE 802.11 WG has visited before (bolded):
Maybe we should restrict any future surveys to destinations that are rated by most governments as Level 1 or Level 2? Andrew From: Dorothy Stanley <dstanley1389@xxxxxxxxx>
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All, The results of the recent poll are below. These results are input to the Wireless Chairs standing committee decision re: in person or electronic upcoming September meeting. 2021 September Member Input: Q1: Y/N 67/108, where Yes = I can attend in person, No - I cannot attend in person Q2: Y/N 59/116, where Yes - I CANNOT pay the fee, No= I CAN pay the fee The questions are in
https://www.ieee802.org/11/email/stds-802-11/msg05318.html . Thanks very much, Dorothy ---------------------- To unsubscribe from the STDS-802-11 list, click the following link:
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