You avoid conflict of interest in the obvious way -- you can send in proposals or you can evaluate them, but you can't do both. I agree.. that's a given.. On Mon, Aug 5, 2019 at 7:50 PM John R. Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
My fault for assuming everyone had been at the same meeting. Although not actually stated we had been talking about the volunteers from the various community groups on the CCWG. And Alan's suggestion that community volunteers would not have the same commitment as paid experts. Somehow that's understandable.. but is it right?
No, of course not.
I think I'm a member of the community, but I've done paid work for ICANN. Evaluating grant proposals is a significant amount of work, so you pay people to do it, no matter where they come from. It doesn't have to be a vast amount of money but it has to be enough that people treat it as a commitment.
You avoid conflict of interest in the obvious way -- you can send in proposals or you can evaluate them, but you can't do both.
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