[At-Large] ALAC Draft Accountability Framework and Conflicts of Interest Policy

[Brendler, Beau]

I read it and it's not a lot different than what my own organization requires its employees to read and sign.

Perhaps I'm in the minority but, though long and bureaucratic, it outlines minimum expectations. Sure, some of them are common sense and common courtesy, but ALAC is multilingual and multicultural, so it needs to be spelled out somewhere.

My only comment is that I do not take loyalty oaths, so I cannot sign anything that contains language that amounts to swearing loyalty to a committee, which went out with Lavrenti Beria et al, etc.

So my hope is we can agree to what's in here and move on to the substantive work we all would prefer to be engaged in.

Beau Brendler


-----Original Message-----
From: alac-bounces at atlarge-lists.icann.org on behalf of Alan Greenberg
Sent: Sat 4/12/2008 7:10 AM
To: At-Large Worldwide
Subject: Re: [At-Large] ALAC Draft Accountability Framework and Conflicts of Interest Policy
 
I have some substantive comments, but first, I must point out that 
the document says a vote will be taken during the April 
teleconference, I presume that the plan is actually for May.

I am attaching a copy of the draft document with my COMMENTS inserted 
(you may have to turn on displaying of Comment Balloons to see them). 
Some are purely editorial, but most are substantive.

Overall, I find this document far too long, and too bureaucratic. 
Providing an 11 page document to tell people what is expected of them 
seems like a way to guarantee that it is not read. On the other hand, 
the major participation requirements are at times glossed over where 
they should be more descriptive. I nevertheless have addressed the 
document as it stands.

I find the Conflict of Interest procedures overly complex. Yes, we 
must make sure we are not perceived as serving some other master, but 
we are an advisory committee, not a policy-making body. The GNSO, 
which *is* a policy making body has less onerous rules.

I must admit that I am troubled that I found so much to comment on, 
and I haven't seen any other comments from ALAC members (unless they 
came in while I was in transit the last 24 hours). Am really that out 
of touch with everyone else?

Alan


At 31/03/2008 02:49 PM, Nick Ashton-Hart wrote:
>Dear Community members:
>
>The ALAC decided at their last meeting to request the staff to draft 
>up a comprehensive Accountability Framework, which the ALAC 
>Executive Committee was to review and amend at its meeting this 
>month. The Chair proposed to the ExComm that at the same time a 
>Conflicts of Interest Policy should be prepared as this was a 
>natural accompaniment to the Accountability Framework.
>
>he ExComm has reviewed these two texts, and the ALAC is now to 
>review the draft from 1 April until 11th April - comments from the 
>wider At-Large community are of course welcomed.
>
>Any comments received are then to be incorporated and the resulting 
>text will be on the agenda for adoption at the next ALAC 
>Teleconference, in May.
>
>The URL for the text is as follows. In order to save bandwidth for 
>those who do not have broadband, the text has not been attached to 
>this message: 
>https://st.icann.org/data/workspaces/alac/attachments/8_april_2008:20080331184709-0-23852/files/AL-ALAC-EXC-0308-1-2.Rev1%20Draft%20Accountability%20Framework%20-%20EN.doc
>
>French and Spanish translation will be available once they are ready.
>--
>Regards,
>
>Nick Ashton-Hart


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