[Chapter-delegates] ISOC's great opportunity to inspire ethical policy discussion

[Avri Doria]

Hi,

On 11-Jul-14 10:17, JOHN MORE wrote:
> But I would have thought as a supporter of privacy you would not call
> for financial disclosure from non-politicians.

I tend to agree with the idea that anyone who presupposes to speak to us
about political things should be willing to have their interests
identified.  They most certainly have a right to remain private and in
the audience, but otherwise the source of funding should be transparent.

I think the ICANN SOI standard is a moderate one (though I am reminded I
need to update mine) and I do think it should be investigated as a
requirement for future IGF and IGF type events.  Yes, we come from many
different stakeholder groups, but that does not excuse those of us who
would be vocal from being transparent.

As for this event, I think SOI is a good voluntary standard for people
to adhere to.  I think it is is also good for those of us who can only
attend meeting on some funder's dime, to be clear about who has paid
support.  I.e. it does not really matter that I tend to do text work in
payment for travel support and have a reputation for biting the hand
that feeds me, it should be known whose hand I am biting, if my ability
to speak is based on their charity.

In the case of the IGF-USA I am getting travel funding from the
organizing group (don't have any idea how that works internally).

avri

SOI: https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=40927333