On 12/18/2013 05:23 PM, Alan Greenberg wrote:
...The Board operates almost completely outside of public view...
Which is something that any board member is free to change without consent of the rest of the board. When I was on the board I published to the public a diary of the majority of actions I took as a board member. This diary described the issues, the inputs, my criteria, and my decision making process. I made a point of doing this only for myself; I did not describe the criteria, process, or arguments of other board members. That diary is still on-line: http://www.cavebear.com/archive/icann-board/diary/index.htm Because board members are subject to considerable personable risk to their personal assets by virtue of sitting on a board of directors, such as ICANNs, their legal counsel[*] may well recommend that such a diary be kept, at least privately, in order to reduce the risk of liability. (Despite urban legend to the contrary, corporate E&O insurance can not and does not cover all risks.) [*] By-the-way, corporate counsel is most decidedly not a board member's own legal counsel. Corporate counsel's obligation is to the corporation not to the individual board member. No person should consider taking a seat on a board of directors without getting advice from their own legal counsel. --karl--