[governance] Registrar-Registry integration and conflicts of interest

CW Mail mail at christopherwilkinson.eu
Thu Sep 22 08:54:07 EDT 2011


Well, many of us have been subject to "cooling off" periods.

In this particular case, the issue arises because ICANN has wrongly  
decided that Registrars may apply to become their own Registries.
So now we have - as I foresaw last month - both the EU and the US (a)  
pointing up the conflict of interest and (b) questioning the  
competition policy aspects of the vertical integration decision.

For a bottom-up, consensus driven process in which the At Large are  
representing the public interest, that is quite an achievement.

Regards to you all,

CW


On 22 Sep 2011, at 13:16, McTim wrote:

> I'm not so sure about a cooling off period and 2 years is a long time.
>
> What if an ICANN employee wanted to work for another Internet related
> policy organisation like ISOC or InternetNZ or APC, would that be
> allowed?
>
> The devil would be in the details, certainly!
>
> -- 
> Cheers,
>
> McTim
> "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
> route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 1:31 PM, CW Mail  
> <mail at christopherwilkinson.eu> wrote:
>> http://news.businessweek.com/article.asp?documentKey=1376-LRJ76P0YHQ0X01-5GK35KVQ6SNK471LR9L5PCHQE9
>>
>> Ah, Indeed.
>>
>> CW
>>
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>>> Auftrag
>>> von mail at christopherwilkinson.eu
>>> Gesendet: Sonntag, 21. August 2011 21:02
>>> An: governance at lists.cpsr.org; governance at lists.cpsr.org
>>> Cc: council at isoc-ecc.org
>>> Betreff: RE: AW: [governance] BECKSTROM TO LEAVE ICANN AT END OF  
>>> HIS TERM
>>>
>>> There is an obvious conflict of interest in this context which  
>>> should have
>>> been regulated, before, by the ICANN Board or by the ICANN  
>>> Nominating
>>> Committee. Failure to do so will lead to additional intrusion by  
>>> GAC or
>>> the
>>> US.
>>>
>>> Movements of this kind between the Regulator and the Operators  
>>> should be
>>> subject to a 24 month cooling off period.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> CW
>>>
>>>
>>> Original Message:
>>> -----------------
>>> From: Kleinwächter, Wolfgang
>>> wolfgang.kleinwaechter at medienkomm.uni-halle.de
>>> Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 19:07:48 +0200
>>> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
>>> Subject: AW: [governance] BECKSTROM TO LEAVE ICANN AT END OF HIS  
>>> TERM
>>>
>>>
>>> FYI
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/icann-departures-draw-criticism/2011/
>>> 08/19/gIQAzpeDTJ_story.html
>>>
>>> wolfgang
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