[ncdnhc-discuss] Membership Status of Silicon ValleyPublic Access Link

[Nilda Vany Martinez Grajales]

Dave, Milton and all:

My opinion is that due to the facts presented by David Crocker in his e-mail,
theres's not conflict
of interests.

Best Regards
Vany

Dave Crocker wrote:

> At 12:41 PM 10/30/2001 -0500, Milton Mueller wrote:
> >Currently your representative in NCDNHC is Mr. David Crocker, an emeritus
> >Board member of SVPA. In order to avoid a conflict of interest, we would
> >request that your organization appoint a new representative.
>
> Milton,
>
> A slightly interesting retaliatory effort, on your part.  Transparent, of
> course, but then subtlety and carefulness have not been your hallmark.
>
> A few items:
>
> 1.      Copying the entire NCDNHC is the definitive demonstration that you
> are more interested in playing to an audience than dealing with any real
> problems.
>
> 2.      Had you bothered to do a modicum of research, you would have found
> out that I  consult Neustar on technology, not on policy, and I have no
> access to their business plans.  For example, see
> <http://www.icannfacts.org/about.html>.
>
> 3.      My relationship with Neustar has been public knowledge since its
> start and is documented on my web page.
>
> Therefore:
>
> 1.      Please provide a citation to the authoritative constituency
> document that substantiates your claim of policies and procedures
> concerning a conflict of interest.  There is nothing in the constituency's
> temporary charter that provides such authority.
>
> 2.      Please provide documentation that you are representing an
> authorized decision from the constituency, rather than on your own,
> personal initiative.
>
> You raise a number of issues concerning conflicts of interest, such as your
> own involvement in dispute resolution, or anyone else's acquisition of
> funds from any company that makes money from the Internet.  (I hope that
> you and everyone else appreciates the difficulty of finding people who do
> not benefit financially from their Internet work.)
>
> I would be glad to see this group develop consistent rules concerning the
> matter, but would suggest that it be done carefully.  Of course, that means
> you must recuse yourself from involvement, Milton, given your complete lack
> of balance in dealing with me (or anyone else who has the gall to disagree
> with you) and your utter disregard for fair process.
>
> As for the rest of the constituency, it will be interesting to see whether
> Milton's excesses ever go too far to motivate the constituency to replace
> this wayward soul with one that is less destructive.
>
> d/
>
> ps.     Milton, have you noticed that the constituency still does not have
> a formal charter? One would have thought that fixing that deficiency was
> part of the Adcom job, although it is not nearly as self-serving as
> creating public controversy.  Any chance you will considering doing your
> actual job?
>
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>
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Nilda Vany Martinez Grajales
Information Technology Specialist
Sustainable Development Networking Programme/Panama
e-mail: vany at sdnp.org.pa
http://www.sdnp.org.pa