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