[governance] 2008 NomCom Report

[Michael Gurstein]

I'm assuming that the overt attempt was to deal with potential for "conflict
of interest" in a rather tricky area and where the guidelines wouldn't
necessarily be immediately obvious.

But as I understand "conflicts of interest" they have to do with the
potential for a direct financial effect from a decision (including
influencing decisions) resulting from participation in a specific decision
making process.  

I would have thought, based on that (rather awkward) definition that it
would be clear that folks working for technical companies might be in a
conflict of interest on the MAG (something certainly to be dealt with by
others than CS who would by excluding those folks from their "nomination" be
transferring responsibility for that decision to others) and would not
exclude techies working for not for profit technical organizations and or
those working for NGO's/CS organizations whether or not they are engaged in
IG related activities in their working life.

MG

-----Original Message-----
From: McTim [mailto:dogwallah at gmail.com] 
Sent: May 15, 2008 7:45 AM
To: governance at lists.cpsr.org; Robert Guerra
Subject: Re: [governance] 2008 NomCom Report


On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 3:36 PM, Robert Guerra <lists at privaterra.info>
wrote:
> I hope that as a result of the report, the IGC starts the discussion - 
> much needed - to make the point that those involved in Internet 
> Governance Organizations (such as RIR's)  are good to have in the 
> caucus, are seen as CS, and including them in our structures and other 
> bodies is not only good - but strategic .

Amen!!

And how about those who sit on the Boards of such organisations?

I imagine the set of folk on this list AND on a IG org board is a non-zero
set.

I also imagine that if we extrapolate the NomCom's decision to all those who
work on IG issues, whether paid or voluntary, full or part-time, we could
nominate very, very few from this list to the MAG. ;-?

-- 
Cheers,

McTim
$ whois -h whois.afrinic.net mctim
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