[Ccwg-auctionproceeds] [Ext] Re: notes and action items from the CCWG Auction Proceeds meeting on Wed, 31 July 2019 (14 UTC).

[Maureen Hilyard]

You avoid conflict of interest in the obvious way -- you can send in
proposals or you can evaluate them, but you can't do both.

I agree.. that's a given..



On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 7:50 PM John R. Levine <johnl at iecc.com> wrote:

> > My fault for assuming everyone had been at the same meeting. Although not
> > actually stated we had been talking about the volunteers from the various
> > community groups on the CCWG. And Alan's suggestion that community
> > volunteers would not have the same commitment as paid experts. Somehow
> > that's understandable.. but is it right?
>
> No, of course not.
>
> I think I'm a member of the community, but I've done paid work for ICANN.
> Evaluating grant proposals is a significant amount of work, so you pay
> people to do it, no matter where they come from.  It doesn't have to be a
> vast amount of money but it has to be enough that people treat it as a
> commitment.
>
> You avoid conflict of interest in the obvious way -- you can send in
> proposals or you can evaluate them, but you can't do both.
>
> Regards,
> John Levine, johnl at iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for
> Dummies",
> Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly
>
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