Re: [council] Topic for Senegal Board-GNSO Council Meeting

[Stéphane Van Gelder <stephane.vangelder@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Bruce.

If it can help, this is my personal view on this: 
http://www.stephanevangelder.com/archives/373-ICANN-needs-an-independent,-paid-Board!.html

Thanks,

Stéphane



Le 20 juil. 2011 à 14:20, Bruce Tonkin a écrit :

> 
> Hello All,
> 
> Just to elaborate a little further on current rules, the Board also has a 
> code of conduct and a conflicts policy.
> 
> 
> Code of conduct is available at:
> 
> http://www.icann.org/en/committees/board-governance/bod-code-of-conduct-21apr11-en.htm
> 
> Code of conduct guidelines at:
> 
> http://www.icann.org/en/committees/board-governance/bod-code-of-conduct-guidelines-21apr11-en.htm
>    (this was something updated recently to deal with confidentiality 
> guidelines).
> 
> The conflicts policy is available at:
> 
> http://www.icann.org/en/committees/coi/coi-policy-30jul09-en.htm
> 
> 
> As chair of the Board's Governance Committee - we are constantly evolving 
> such documents, and beginning to extend the base documents with operating 
> guidelines.
> 
> As a result of this recent case, I welcome suggestions for how any of these 
> documents can be improved.
> 
> Each Board director is also required to make an annual statement of interest, 
> which includes the following question:
> 
> " An existing or potential ownership, professional or investment interest in, 
> or employment or any other Compensation arrangement with, any entity whose 
> business or operation has been or will be directly affected by a decision or 
> action of ICANN, including by reason of a potential or planned application or 
> possible agreement for operation of a new generic top-level domain (gTLD) or 
> delegation of a country code internationalized domain name (ccIDN);"
> 
> We do have processes for dealing with a potential conflict - including an 
> undisclosed conflict by a currently sitting Board member.   We don't have an 
> explicit process for dealing with any cases that come to light after a 
> director leaves the Board.
> 
> A short overview of statements of interest is maintained at:
> 
> http://www.icann.org/en/board/summary-board-soi-en.htm
> 
> and the 24 June version is available at:
> 
> http://www.icann.org/en/board/summary-soi-24jun11-en.htm
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Bruce Tonkin
>