During my CIRA Chair days, we
developed a conflict of interest policy, with the assistance of one of the
country's leading legal firms. Ross, would CIRA be willing to share its policy
with the Council?
Maureen
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Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 3:38
PM
Subject: RE: [council] Conflicts of
Interest
I'm also interested in supporting the development of an
effective Interest
Statement, and a discussion of what creates a conflict
that requires a
recusement, versus a disclosure. Also, we should examine
how we implement
such a program.
Grant has shared with the BC the
way that InternetNZ addresses, and perhaps
there are other useful models
also about to quickly get a sense of.
Marilyn
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From: owner-council@gnso.icann.org
[mailto:owner-council@gnso.icann.org] On
Behalf Of Cubberley, Maureen
(CHT)
Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 11:04 AM
To: ross@tucows.com; Bruce Tonkin
Cc: council@gnso.icann.org
Subject:
RE: [council] Conflicts of Interest
Bruce and Ross,
Thanks
Bruce for bringing this proposal forward. I too think this is
an
excellent idea, and Ross, I agree with your further analysis.
In
particular, I agree that the GNSO council should move ahead with
a
conflict of interest policy, and an appropriate process to accompany
it.
As you know, this is an issue that I brought up at the meeting
in
Vancouver, at which time I cited the Board conflict of interest
policy
and asked for clarification as to whether or not it applied to
the
Council.
Now that we have our clarification, we should move
ahead.
I like your" light weight" approach and also the concept of a
design
committee.
I support the idea of adding this to the next
agenda, so Bruce, if that
is acceptable and if the Council as a whole
agrees to proceed, I would
be pleased to volunteer to work with fellow
Councillors on the proposed
"design committee" or with whatever
development approach is decided
upon.
Best
regards,
Maureen
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-council@gnso.icann.org
[mailto:owner-council@gnso.icann.org]
On Behalf Of Ross Rader
Sent:
Friday, January 20, 2006 8:57 AM
To: Bruce Tonkin
Cc: council@gnso.icann.org
Subject:
Re: [council] Conflicts of Interest
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