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RE: [registrars] Bylaw Request
Tom,
I agree with your intent. But I don't read 4.6.1.2 as limiting the disclosure. It says "disclosure of any conflict of interest, including..." Perhaps we could add the phrase "but not limited to" and make it clearer. So it would then read:
"4.6.1.2. disclosure of any conflict of interest, including, but not limited to, contracts ..."
Would that work for you. Elana, is that still doable?
Tim
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: RE: [registrars] Bylaw Request From: "tbarrett" <tbarrett@encirca.com> Date: Wed, April 30, 2003 8:34 pm To: "'Ross Wm. Rader'" <ross@tucows.com>, registrars@dnso.org
Ross,
I agree with you when you say "The point is that the person filing the disclosure knows what they are a member of and when they are likely to have a conflict of interests."
It would be fine it we stopped here. But I object when we narrow this to only apply to relationships with "someone who included in the membership of another constituency." I do not know what this means. "membership" typically requires a pro-active step for someone to join.
A conflict of interest is a conflict of interest regardless if the third party is a member of any ICANN constituency.
The matter of conflict is not whether someone has a relationship with a "member" !
of another constituency but that there two members of the Registrar constituency who have a non-obvious conflict that should be revealed. I object to trying to specify that the conflict of interest needs to be with a "member of another ICANN constituency".
Tom
-----Original Message----- From: owner-registrars@dnso.org [mailto:owner-registrars@dnso.org] On Behalf Of Ross Wm. Rader Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 6:59 PM To: registrars@dnso.org Subject: Re: [registrars] Bylaw Request
> I think the current language too narrowly defines areas of disclosure. For > example "member (or observer) of another ICANN constituency" means > what? Someone who pays dues to another constituency? Someone who > attends ICANN meetings? Is a company automatically a member or > observer of a constituency > if they never have attended or observed an ICANN meeting?
I'm not !
sure that I understand the question Tom - someone is a member of another constituency if that someone is included in the membership of another constituency. The answer entirely depends on how the other constituency qualifies members. The point is that the person filing the disclosure knows what they are a member of and when they are likely to have a conflict of interests. As others have pointed out in the past, we don't need to set up tribunals and undertake witch-hunts - we have to have a basic belief that our members are all fundamentally honest and will come clean with conflicts when they arise. If not, they run the risk of someone else making the disclosure on their behalf - which is usually not the best way for things to turn out.
As far as the specific proposal goes, I'm not sure that we gain much from adding this specific language - or what legal hot-buttons we might be inadvertently pushing if we included it - I'm always war!
y of anything that singles out lawyers for special treatment - even if it is just free ice cream.
-rwr
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