[council] Conflicts of Interest

[Cubberley, Maureen (CHT)]

Thanks Michael. 

 

 I have just been in touch with the current CIRA Chair, Clyde Beattie,
and he advises me that there are some proposed changes to CIRA's Bylaw
#1, which will be brought forward at a special members' meeting in
Toronto next week, and which might result in some changes to the COI
policy.  I plan to be at the meeting, and will review the proposed
changes prior to that. I will post to this list if there are any changes
of substance that might be of interest to Council as we continue this
discussion on Interest/Conflict.

 

Best regards,

Maureen

 

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From: owner-council at gnso.icann.org [mailto:owner-council at gnso.icann.org]
On Behalf Of Michael D. Palage
Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2006 8:30 PM
To: council at gnso.icann.org
Subject: RE: [council] Conflicts of Interest

 

Maureen:

 

Thanks for the reference to this document, I found it very informative,
see http://www.cira.ca/official-doc/16.Conflict_of_Interest_Policy.pdf

 

Best regards.

 

Michael

	-----Original Message-----
	From: owner-council at gnso.icann.org
[mailto:owner-council at gnso.icann.org] On Behalf Of Maureen Cubberley
	Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2006 8:44 PM
	To: Marilyn Cade; 'Cubberley, Maureen (CHT)'; ross at tucows.com;
'Bruce Tonkin'
	Cc: council at gnso.icann.org
	Subject: Re: [council] Conflicts of Interest

	During my CIRA Chair days, we developed a conflict of interest
policy, with the assistance of one of the country's leading legal firms.
Ross, would CIRA be willing to share its policy with the Council?

	 

	Maureen

	 

		----- Original Message ----- 

		From: Marilyn Cade <mailto:marilynscade at hotmail.com>  

		To: 'Cubberley, Maureen (CHT)'
<mailto:MCubberley at gov.mb.ca>  ; ross at tucows.com ; 'Bruce Tonkin'
<mailto:Bruce.Tonkin at melbourneit.com.au>  

		Cc: council at gnso.icann.org 

		Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 3:38 PM

		Subject: RE: [council] Conflicts of Interest

		 

		I'm also interested in supporting the development of an
effective Interest
		Statement, and a discussion of what creates a conflict
that requires a
		recusement, versus a disclosure. Also, we should examine
how we implement
		such a program. 
		
		Grant has shared with the BC the way that InternetNZ
addresses, and perhaps
		there are other useful models also about to quickly get
a sense of. 
		
		Marilyn
		
		-----Original Message-----
		From: owner-council at gnso.icann.org
[mailto:owner-council at gnso.icann.org] On
		Behalf Of Cubberley, Maureen (CHT)
		Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 11:04 AM
		To: ross at tucows.com; Bruce Tonkin
		Cc: council at gnso.icann.org
		Subject: RE: [council] Conflicts of Interest
		
		Bruce and Ross,
		
		Thanks Bruce for bringing this proposal forward.  I too
think this is an
		excellent idea, and Ross, I agree with your further
analysis. In
		particular, I agree that the GNSO council should move
ahead with a
		conflict of interest policy, and an appropriate process
to accompany it.
		
		As you know, this is an issue that I brought up at the
meeting in
		Vancouver, at which time I cited the Board conflict of
interest policy
		and asked for clarification as to whether or not it
applied to the
		Council.
		Now that we have our clarification, we should move
ahead.
		
		I like your" light weight" approach and also the concept
of a design
		committee. 
		
		I support the idea of adding this to the next agenda, so
Bruce, if that
		is acceptable and if the Council as a whole agrees to
proceed, I would
		be pleased to volunteer to work with fellow Councillors
on the proposed
		"design committee" or with whatever development approach
is decided
		upon.
		
		Best regards,
		
		Maureen
		
		-----Original Message-----
		From: owner-council at gnso.icann.org
[mailto:owner-council at gnso.icann.org]
		On Behalf Of Ross Rader
		Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 8:57 AM
		To: Bruce Tonkin
		Cc: council at gnso.icann.org
		Subject: Re: [council] Conflicts of Interest
		
		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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