On Wed, 2025-03-19 at 16:36 +0300, Andrew Alston wrote: > I don’t think anyone is advocating support of a boycott. I think > though that it is prudent to realize that a significant number of > people may not feel safe travelling to the U.S. with the current > situation, irrespective of if they can get visas or not. > > The potential travel bans and the arrest and deportation of people > with valid visas creates real concerns and I believe the LLC needs to > be cognisant of these concerns. > > If a situation exists where a meeting is deemed effectively safe only > for the members of the host country - this is not conducive for > creating standards that have global applicability > Similar concerns were raised over Singapore. I would have more worries traveling to the US now than I had traveling to Singapore then. To hope things will improve magically with the mid- terms is naive. The LLC should take steps to move as many future meetings as possible out of the US. Best Leif
