Re: [council] Conflicts of Interest

["Maureen Cubberley" <m.cubberley@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

During my CIRA Chair days, we developed a conflict of interest policy, with the 
assistance of one of the country's leading legal firms. Ross, would CIRA be 
willing to share its policy with the Council?

Maureen

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Marilyn Cade 
  To: 'Cubberley, Maureen (CHT)' ; ross@xxxxxxxxxx ; 'Bruce Tonkin' 
  Cc: council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 3:38 PM
  Subject: RE: [council] Conflicts of Interest


  I'm also interested in supporting the development of an effective Interest
  Statement, and a discussion of what creates a conflict that requires a
  recusement, versus a disclosure. Also, we should examine how we implement
  such a program. 

  Grant has shared with the BC the way that InternetNZ addresses, and perhaps
  there are other useful models also about to quickly get a sense of. 

  Marilyn

  -----Original Message-----
  From: owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
  Behalf Of Cubberley, Maureen (CHT)
  Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 11:04 AM
  To: ross@xxxxxxxxxx; Bruce Tonkin
  Cc: council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Subject: RE: [council] Conflicts of Interest

  Bruce and Ross,

  Thanks Bruce for bringing this proposal forward.  I too think this is an
  excellent idea, and Ross, I agree with your further analysis. In
  particular, I agree that the GNSO council should move ahead with a
  conflict of interest policy, and an appropriate process to accompany it.

  As you know, this is an issue that I brought up at the meeting in
  Vancouver, at which time I cited the Board conflict of interest policy
  and asked for clarification as to whether or not it applied to the
  Council.
  Now that we have our clarification, we should move ahead.

  I like your" light weight" approach and also the concept of a design
  committee. 

  I support the idea of adding this to the next agenda, so Bruce, if that
  is acceptable and if the Council as a whole agrees to proceed, I would
  be pleased to volunteer to work with fellow Councillors on the proposed
  "design committee" or with whatever development approach is decided
  upon.

  Best regards,

  Maureen

  -----Original Message-----
  From: owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
  On Behalf Of Ross Rader
  Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 8:57 AM
  To: Bruce Tonkin
  Cc: council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Subject: Re: [council] Conflicts of Interest

  Bruce Tonkin wrote:

  > I see this being a voluntary initiative as there doesn't seem to be
  any
  > explicit bylaw requirements.

  Bruce -

  I think this is an excellent proposal. As you know, the registrar 
  constituency has had similar practices embodied in its bylaws for a 
  number of years.

  However, simply because the bylaws is silent on a specific set of 
  behaviors, doesn't mean that we can't officially adopt these behaviors 
  through other means.

  I also believe that it is time for the Council of the GNSO to adopt some

  explicit conflict of interest management processes - but I believe they 
  should be mandatory. At first, we should proceed cautiously with these. 
  A light-weight approach would seem to be most prudent. Over time, we 
  could improve and expand upon the approach in ways that make it more 
  useful for our purposes.

  My preference would not be to create a "design committee" to come up 
  with a comprehensive proposal at this time. As a first step, I think 
  your proposal makes eminent sense, and I would like to discuss whether 
  or not the rest of the council would be willing to undertake a vote to 
  make these requirements mandatory. Is this something that we could add 
  to the agenda of our next meeting?

  Thanks in advance for your consideration.

  -ross