I also endorse Bruce's voluntary initiative --at least for the time being. I do think the GNSO Council should consider adopting a permanent and mandatory conflict of interest policy. Regards, Lucy
-----Original Message----- From: owner-council@gnso.icann.org [mailto:owner-council@gnso.icann.org] On Behalf Of ext Avri Doria Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 9:38 AM To: Ross Rader Cc: Bruce Tonkin; council@gnso.icann.org Subject: Re: [council] Conflicts of Interest
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