RE: [atlarge-discuss] No icannatlarge.com reps on ERC task force

["Bruce Young" <Bruce@barelyadequate.info>]

Joanna Lane wrote:

>What does concern me is that Candidates Piniero and Bertola have publicly 
>disassociated themselves with icannatlarge.com by accepting their seats 
>on the Committee as representatives of other organizations. 

I don't think we can go as far as to say they are publicly disassociating themselves from us since their alternate associations are the only bona fides they have at the moment.  But even though they have no legal standing to be there on our behalf, I'm glad they're there anyway, if only to bring us intelligence!  :) 

However, Joanna does raise an important point here: I imagine most of us would feel uncomfortable if our officers represented other bodies in forums where we should also be represented.  The conflict of interest alone would be troubling.  We could avoid such conflict in the future by appointing/electing liaison positions separate from and subordinate to the executive committee.  Since whoever does represent us would have to stick to the agenda our membership approves, I see no need for our leaders to necessarily represent us in person except at high-level functions.  

Also, I have no problem with our members concurrently being members of other organizations.  That is inevitable.  But we have to think hard about whether we want our leaders to also serve a leadership role in other Internet-related organizations, unless their presence in that other organization is specifically intended to to represent us.  In other words, if John Doe were voted in as an executive member of our organization, and he was also an executive member of another Internet-related organization, we'd probably want to ask John to either decline our position, or resign from his position in the other organization.  However, if Joe, was an executive member of our group, and also represented this group formally in another forum (like the ALOC), I'd have no problem if he, as our representative, were voted into ofice in that body (although *they * might, but that's not our problem!).  The first case sets up a conflict of interests against our group. However while the second al!
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 sets up a conflict of interest, its in our favor, so it should be allowed as long as the other organization is willing to live with the conflict!

Bruce Young
Portland, Oregon USA
bruce@barelyadequate.info
http://www.barelyadequate.info
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