[Gnso-newgtld-dg] Conflicts of Interest

[BRG]

Before we all get too wound up about conflicts it may help to distinguish
between the POTENTIAL for a conflict and ACTUAL conflicts which result in
CORRUPT behaviour. A conflict of interest (COI) is a situation occurring
when an  <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individual> individual or
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organization> organization is involved in
multiple  <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interest_%28emotion%29> interests,
one of which could possibly  <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrupt> corrupt
the motivation. The presence of a conflict of interest is independent of the
occurrence of  <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impropriety> impropriety.
Therefore, a conflict of interest can be discovered and voluntarily defused
before any  <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption> corruption occurs.

So, for our purposes, the SOI's are the appropriate discovery of a potential
conflict.

A recusal from voting is a way of mitigation.

Philip

 

 

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