On 07/04/2017 04:28 AM, Jen Linkova wrote:
On Tue, Jul 4, 2017 at 8:04 AM, Fernando Gont <fgont@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 e-mail: fgont@si6networks.com PGP Fingerprint: 6666 31C6 D484 63B2 8FB1 E3C4 AE25 0D55 1D4E 7492