[CCWG-ACCT] got some lawyerly answers on membership structure

[Rudolph Daniel]

I would think, and  certainly it has been suggested elsewhere that public
accountably be less of the shareholder kind and more of the ethical variety.
RD
On Jan 27, 2015 3:04 PM, "Eric Brunner-Williams" <ebw at abenaki.wabanaki.net>
wrote:

>  All,
>
> I would not like to see the Board's duty as stewards of the public trust
> -- exercising reasonable care, inquisitive,  ... the strictest standard of
> duty of care in American law -- reduced to the pursuit of quarterly profits
> maximization prevalent in for-profit Boards.
>
> ICANN’s Board of Directors would become accountable to the community, in
> much the same way that the Boards of publicly-traded companies are
> ultimately accountable to their shareholders.
>
>
> I suggest our standards are, by initial design, higher than the likeness
> proposed.
>
> Eric Brunner-Williams
> Eugene, Oregon
>
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