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RE: [council] Dealing with conflicts

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  • Subject: RE: [council] Dealing with conflicts
  • From: "Tim Ruiz" <tim@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 08:21:56 -0700
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font-size:10pt;"><div>The difference in the vote in question and what Philip 
puts forward below is that some potentially ex-Councilors may be voting on 
personally receiving payment for travel to Seoul. That is not the same as 
appointed/elected Councilors voting as representatives of their constituencies 
on policy issues that affect that constituency as a whole.</div>
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<div>If the vote in question was about funding Councilors, that also may be 
different. But it is about funding ex-Councilors and IMO that creates 
a&nbsp;personal benefit to an individual. I know there is the issue of timing 
as Kristina pointed out. There likely isn't an&nbsp;easy answer, which is why 
I&nbsp;believe we should not be voting on this at all.</div>
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<div>I would also request that Staff take up this issue with Kevin and let us 
know if we are just wasting our time. If a consensus or a majority of 
Councilors/ex-Councilors is not going to sway ICANN to increase funding then 
perhaps&nbsp;we can all be saved from spending more time on an already lost 
cause.</div>
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<div>Tim </div>
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<div   >-------- Original Message --------<BR>Subject: [council] Dealing with 
conflicts<BR>From: "Philip Sheppard" &lt;philip.sheppard@xxxxxx&gt;<BR>Date: 
Fri, August 14, 2009 7:35 am<BR>To: "'Council GNSO'" 
&lt;council@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx&gt;<BR><BR><BR><BR>I will gladly abstain from a vote 
related to a conflict on travel if I hear an<BR>undertaking from the contract 
parties they will cease to vote on all future<BR>issues that may affect their 
own contracts.<BR><BR>Philip<BR><BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></span></body></html>
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