[council] Conflicts of Interest

ICANNSoph sophiabekele at gmail.com
Fri Jan 20 18:02:06 UTC 2006


I agree with all.  Sophia

On 20/01/06, Ken Stubbs <kstubbs at afilias.info> wrote:
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> I am in agreement with Lucy
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> Ken Stubbs
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> Lucy.Nichols at nokia.com wrote:
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> 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 <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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> a.
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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.
>
> 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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