[At-Large] [ALAC] TR: ANNOUNCEMENT : Results from Round 2 voting for At-Large selected Board Member for seat #15 of ICANN Board

[Alan Greenberg]

At 01/12/2010 11:05 AM, John R. Levine wrote:
> > I've always considered CoI to mean financial interest or, if defined more
> > broadly, attachment to an organization that has a financial or regulatory
> > relationship with ICANN.
>
>Those are the only interpretations used by any board I've ever been on.
>
>The idea that board members can only vote on topics they don't care about
>is truly strange.

I will repeat, this is something I was cautioned about and I passed 
it on when Evan had said that availability was the only issue. It may 
be a completely spurious tale, so let's not get too worked up about 
it until Sebastien finds out if it is indeed an issue or not.

Alan