[At-Large] U.S. Government follows up on “cooling off period” idea for ICANN employees

[Seun Ojedeji]

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Kindly excuse brevity and typos

On Wed, 31 Oct 2018, 08:55 Ricardo Holmquist <rihogris at gmail.com wrote:

> Hi Seun,
> it was not LACNIC list, it was LACRALO list!, with automatic translation
> to Spanish for our region.
>

SO: Sorry typo, I meant to say LACRALO (my RIR instinct kicked in there) ;-)

I just filtered just to avoid a bounce response since I don't think am
subscribed on that list.


> I might agree a 6 month cool off period is desirable, more than that
> should endanger ICANN ability to attract people (or worst, in order to
> attract them should pay a premium, so the people can stay 1,5-2 years not
> working).
>

SO: Hmm....wisdom to the Board on this then.

Cheers!

>
> Best
>
> Ricardo
>
> El mié., 31 oct. 2018 a las 8:41, Seun Ojedeji (<seun.ojedeji at gmail.com>)
> escribió:
>
>> Hello Barrack,
>>
>> Am not sure any further compensation should be made, as I believe ICANN
>> IMO already has a very attractive renumeration for her employees
>> (especially the senior staff), and those restrictions consideration could
>> serve as part of pay justifications as well.
>>
>> That said, I don't think a 6 months cooling off time will be ideal in
>> this context (not for key principal officers), something within the range
>> of 12 to 18 months may be more like it.
>>
>> Regards
>> PS: Filtered out LACNIC list
>> Sent from my mobile
>> Kindly excuse brevity and typos
>>
>> On Wed, 31 Oct 2018, 05:07 Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack at gmail.com
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Vanda,
>>>
>>> Its a tricky situation if you consider the following statement at the
>>> end of the article which i tend to agree with.'
>>>
>>> One challenge I foresee is that ICANN sometimes hires people from the
>>> industry because of their specialized knowledge. It might be difficult to
>>> attract these people if they can’t return to industry companies. ICANN
>>> would need to compensate them for the restriction. I also wonder if
>>> employment laws in various states and countries would limit the ability to
>>> enforce cooling off provisions.
>>>
>>> There are never guarantees with Domain Name Business, for the businesses
>>> to thrive various factors such as Marketing, Pricing , customer service ,
>>> reliability and trust come into play. Provided there is no conflict of
>>> interest, we should maintain the status quo. We risk over regulating and
>>> stifling innovation in the very industry we are trying to build.
>>>
>>> Best
>>>
>>> Best Regards
>>>
>>> On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 5:52 AM Carlos Raul Gutierrez <
>>> carlosraul at gutierrez.se> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Common!
>>>>
>>>> He is just joining Fadi on the largest portfolio of new gTLDs.
>>>>
>>>> They didn't purchase Verisign....
>>>>
>>>> On October 30, 2018 12:52:06 PM CST, Vanda Scartezini <
>>>> vanda at scartezini.org> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Dear Carlton , all
>>>>> Though ICANN is a private organization and could do whatever it want ,
>>>>> at the same time it has a peculiar position as a “ regulatory” entity and
>>>>> as such higher level employees has access to quite confidential aspects of
>>>>> concurrent business and once out of ICANN joining just one of these
>>>>> companies with the knowledge of all in the market is quite an unfair
>>>>> situation and on my opinion would demand some quarantine of at least6
>>>>> months as is normally demanded for high level government employees
>>>>>
>>>>> Vanda Scartezini
>>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>> Sorry for typos
>>>>>
>>>>> On 29 Oct 2018, at 21:48, Carlton Samuels <carlton.samuels at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> https://domainnamewire.com/2018/10/29/u-s-government-follows-up-on-cooling-off-period-idea-for-icann-employees/
>>>>>
>>>>> ==============================
>>>>> *Carlton A Samuels*
>>>>>
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