Re: [ga] Conflicts of interest Policy

["Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law" <froomkin@law.miami.edu>]

Quite so.  Yet some people have much stronger conflicts than others,
notably those paid by ICANN (you know who you are, people), and those
involved in seeking ICANN's blessing for, say, new gTLDs they seek to run.  
That is a different sort of conflict from yours and mine.  I certainly
don't think being in .com is (usually) a conflict.  But in case other
might think so, I should supplement my disclosure by noting Iàm on the
Advisory board of zeroknowledge.com and a non-executive director of
out2.com (a provider of online hyper-local community newspapers in the
US).

On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, Harald Alvestrand wrote:

> At 18:30 25/09/2000 -0400, Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law wrote:
> >I wonder if from time to time the GA should invite participants in its
> >debates to declare financial interests in matters under discussion?
> 
> I must declare conflict of interest: I work for a company (Cisco Systems) 
> whose growth depends on there being a functional Internet for people to 
> connect to.
> I also hold (very few) shares in two companies:
> 
> - VA Linux, which is critically dependent on the open-source community, 
> which is in turn critically dependent on the open Internet continuing to 
> function.
> 
> - EDB ASA, which gets a lot of its revenue from stuff that relates in 
> various ways to networking
> 
> One of my hobbies is also counting Linux users, which is an activity 
> dependent on the same kind of community as VA Linux depends on.
> 
> The point of this "disclosure" is to make the point that *all* of us have 
> special interest in the ICANN process in one way or another. While some may 
> be more direct than others, we are all parts of the same Internet.
> 
> 
>             Harald
> 
> 
> >If so, what kinds of interests?
> >
> >1.  Payments by ICANN?
> >
> >2.  Payments by or share-holdings in entities regulated by ICANN or having
> >contracts with it?
> >
> >3.  Payments by or share-holdings in entities planning or hoping to enter
> >into contractual relations with ICANN (or apply for gTLDs, for example)?
> >
> >4. Others?
> >
> >Comments?
> >
> >[ObDisclosure:  I am a founder of disputes.org, the partner to
> >eResolution.ca, the UDRP services provider.]
> >
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