Dec. 1, 2010
4:36 p.m.
At 01/12/2010 11:05 AM, John R. Levine wrote:
I've always considered CoI to mean financial interest or, if defined more broadly, attachment to an organization that has a financial or regulatory relationship with ICANN.
Those are the only interpretations used by any board I've ever been on.
The idea that board members can only vote on topics they don't care about is truly strange.
I will repeat, this is something I was cautioned about and I passed it on when Evan had said that availability was the only issue. It may be a completely spurious tale, so let's not get too worked up about it until Sebastien finds out if it is indeed an issue or not. Alan