[ncdnhc-discuss] Nominating Adam Peake

[James Love]

Hi Dave.   I am a bit surprised to see that you don't see the DNSO as part
of the ICANN governance structure.  ICANNiss supposed to be a "bottom up"
organization, and the NCC is at the bottom of the DNSO, which is one of the
SO's that elects members to the ICANN board of directors, and certainly some
policies are deferred to the SOs.

The conflicts of interest with the staff would include the fact that the
staff is supposed to be accountable to the board and the SOs, and if they
vote in the SOs, there is an element of being accountable to themselves that
leads to problems.

But if the ICANN CEO wants to greenlight Kent and other staff persons voting
in the DNSO, and formally meddling with internal politics of the DNSO, we
can discuss that.  I would be surprised, but then not too surprised at
anything that ICANN does.  In any case I'll ask Vint about this.

   Jamie

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Crocker" <dhc2 at dcrocker.net>
To: "James Love" <love at cptech.org>
Cc: <discuss at icann-ncc.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 10:46 AM
Subject: Re: [ncdnhc-discuss] Nominating Adam Peake


> At 08:11 AM 2/6/2002 -0500, James Love wrote:
> >Kent.  Having taking a staff position at ICANN, I suggest you stop
> >voting and particpating in the affairs of the DNSO, which is a governing
> >body for ICANN.  I think it is pretty basic that the staff should not be
> >voting in the governing bodies.
>
> governing?
>
> Not quite, James.
>
> The DNSO is tasked with:  "assist, review and develop recommendations".
>
> That is a very long way from governing.
>
> And while we are considering the inflated view of the NCDNHC, please
> describe exactly what the "conflict of interest" dangers are.  What,
> exactly, is the distortion of outcomes that you fear and how, exactly,
> could Kent's participation achieve that distortion?
>
> d/
>
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