[lac-discuss-es] [lac-discuss-en] On the Matter of Conflict of Interest

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Bien anotado señor.

 El miércoles 10 de mayo de 2023 a las 23:52 Carlton Samuels<carlton.samuels en gmail.com>
 escribió: 

> My friends:
> This evening's proceeding was quixotic. We spent an hour tilting at
> windmills and chasing ghosts.
>
> I make these declarations without fear of successful contradiction:
>
> 1. ICANN, the enterprise, is a gift of our Uncle Sam, *the United States*
> *government*.
>
> 2. ICANN is *funded by **fees sourced from registries and registrars*.
>
> 3. *All ALS* whose representatives have ever attended an ICANN meeting or
> the GA *have accepted ICANN funds for travel support and hospitality*.
>
> 4. The RALO - *a metastructure without a legal personality* - *owes it
> legitimacy to the ALS* and not the other way around.
>
> Think it through. But on the preponderance of the evidence and application
> of Know Your Customer (KYC) principles, the ALS whose representative has
> ever attended an ICANN meeting have received and/or benefited from funds
> sourced from registries and registrars.
>
> Purity is not a sustainable operating principle of LACRALO or any other
> RALO, for that matter.  We in LACRALO should cease to subscribe to a
> hypocrisy that is so acute. Or, let us be mute with malice.
>
> Think about this for a minute. This RALO is so committed to the personhood
> of the ALS that we are struggling to incorporate individual end users as
> members with standing and full membership if the person cannot be construed
> as an ALS.
>
> It is alleged that the candidate for Secretary-Elect, a member of an ALS
> in good standing, works for his living with a ccTLD. No group of other ALS
> have a duty to meddle in the internal affairs of a duly admitted ALS.
> Furthermore, it is emphatically not the business of any cabal of ALS to
> determine how that representative makes a living.
>
> So long as the RALO has a valid MOU with ICANN they are in good standing.
> Their representative, by extension, is in good standing. No cabal of ALS is
> authorized to and can legitimately exclude that ALS from fellowship by
> excommunicating its representative.
>
> Finally, the funding argument. This one reminds me of the anti-money
> laundering (AML) rules imposed on developing countries. I always say,
> tongue firmly in cheek, the fear appears to be competition for the major
> money laundering operations in London and Frankfurt and New York.
>
> TTCS asked a question about funding in the meeting I'm sure was lost. She
> asked whether any ALS has ever received a grant from a foundation funded by
> a corporation but for the fact the foundation has a separate legal
> personhood. She was desperately trying to invigorate the thinking.
>
> My reference to ICANN funding sources at the top is an attempt to further
> contextualize funding. In describing source of funds, my good friend Evan
> Leibovitch would insist on taking the logic one further step. In his view
> all the money to ICANN comes from end users as registrants. Registries and
> registrars are mere conduits. His logic is unassailable.
>
> Here is the closeout. Every single *functional* NGO/ALS in LACRALO, from
> Mexico in the North to Argentina in the South, has, at one time or other,
> received largesse originating in governments or corporations.
>
> DevNet is an ALS that by virtue of a valid MOU with ICANN, has *standing
> to associate* with the metastructure LACRALO. In my view, asking DevNet
> to certify its funding is prejudicial, egregious and faithless.
>
> Unless and until every single ALS is required to declare the same here and
> now, I would advise DevNet to answer any request with a single line; "*DevNet
> declares it stands by the terms of the MOU signed with ICANN as an ALS.*"
>
> We premised LACRALO's new beginnings on inclusion and good faith. To my
> mind what happened tonight was a malignant propensity to exclusion and
> faithlessness.
>
> At some point, we must begin to ask if this metastructure is worthwhile.
>
> Carlton Samuels
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