[council] Conflicts of Interest

[Ken Stubbs]

I am in agreement with Lucy

Ken Stubbs

Lucy.Nichols at nokia.com wrote:

>I also endorse Bruce's voluntary initiative --at least for the time
>being.   I do think the GNSO Council should consider adopting a
>permanent and mandatory conflict of interest policy.  
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>Regards, 
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>Lucy 
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: owner-council at gnso.icann.org 
>>[mailto:owner-council at gnso.icann.org] On Behalf Of ext Avri Doria
>>Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 9:38 AM
>>To: Ross Rader
>>Cc: Bruce Tonkin; council at gnso.icann.org
>>Subject: Re: [council] Conflicts of Interest
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>>Hi,
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>>I think this is an excellent proposal and endorse it.
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>>On 20 jan 2006, at 09.56, Ross Rader wrote:
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>>>Bruce Tonkin wrote:
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>>>>I see this being a voluntary initiative as there doesn't seem to be 
>>>>any explicit bylaw requirements.
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>>>Bruce -
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>>>I think this is an excellent proposal. As you know, the registrar 
>>>constituency has had similar practices embodied in its bylaws for a 
>>>number of years.
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>>>However, simply because the bylaws is silent on a specific set of 
>>>behaviors, doesn't mean that we can't officially adopt these 
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>>behaviors 
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>>>through other means.
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>>>I also believe that it is time for the Council of the GNSO to adopt 
>>>some explicit conflict of interest management processes - but I 
>>>believe they should be mandatory. At first, we should proceed 
>>>cautiously with these. A light-weight approach would seem to be most 
>>>prudent. Over time, we could improve and expand upon the approach in 
>>>ways that make it more useful for our purposes.
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>>>My preference would not be to create a "design committee" to come up 
>>>with a comprehensive proposal at this time. As a first step, I think 
>>>your proposal makes eminent sense, and I would like to 
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>>discuss whether 
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>>>or not the rest of the council would be willing to undertake 
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>>a vote to 
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>>>make these requirements mandatory. Is this something that we 
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>>could add 
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>>>to the agenda of our next meeting?
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>>>Thanks in advance for your consideration.
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>>>-ross
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