[ncdnhc-discuss] Proposed NCC resolution on conflicts

[James Love]

Well, Dave is suggesting we tailor conflict rules according to what we think
about individual staff members, and that in the case of his friend Kent,
there apparently ain't no need to have any rules, because he's a good guy.
I guess that is one way to run ICANN.   But I think it would be better to
just have a rule that applies to everyone working on the staff, without
having to vote on whether or not people like that one person or want them to
vote in the DNSO.

In our view, the staff is supposed to work for ICANN, not run ICANN, and I
don't want to debate the individual character of each staff member.

  Jamie


----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Crocker" <dhc2 at dcrocker.net>
To: "James Love" <love at cptech.org>
Cc: <discuss at icann-ncc.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 12:02 PM
Subject: Re: [ncdnhc-discuss] Proposed NCC resolution on conflicts


> At 11:48 AM 2/7/2002 -0500, James Love wrote:
> >     If the staff don't want an effective NCC, DNSO or board, they
> >could undermine efforts to make ICANN more accountable.   That is one
> >conflict one wants to avoid.
>
> One certainly wants to make sure that such efforts do not succeed.
>
> However we now have a long track-record that shows that Kent's efforts
tend
> to be towards things the rest of the constituency chooses not to adopt.
>
> So, even if one takes the nastiest possible interpretation of Kent's
> motives and then asserts that they were for the nastiest motives, we have
> considerable experience that shows that the fear you are expressing is
> without foundation.
>
>
> >2.  It is a bad idea to have to justify a conflict policy over the
character
> >of one person, because you force people to cast aspersions on Kent
>
> I agree it is a bad idea.  Nonetheless, that is what some of you folks are
> doing.
>
> d/
>
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