[council] Conflicts of Interest
Avri Doria
avri at acm.org
Fri Jan 20 15:38:11 UTC 2006
Hi,
I think this is an excellent proposal and endorse it.
a.
On 20 jan 2006, at 09.56, Ross Rader wrote:
> Bruce Tonkin wrote:
>
>> I see this being a voluntary initiative as there doesn't seem to
>> be any
>> explicit bylaw requirements.
>
> Bruce -
>
> 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.
>
> However, simply because the bylaws is silent on a specific set of
> behaviors, doesn't mean that we can't officially adopt these
> behaviors through other means.
>
> 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
> discuss whether or not the rest of the council would be willing to
> undertake a vote to make these requirements mandatory. Is this
> something that we could add to the agenda of our next meeting?
>
> Thanks in advance for your consideration.
>
> -ross
>
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