[Chapter-delegates] Message from Internet Society Audit Committee Chair

[sivasubramanian muthusamy]

On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 8:10 PM Andrew Sullivan via Chapter-delegates <
chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 09, 2020 at 09:33:22AM -0500, vinton cerf wrote:
> >
> >It seems to me that ISOC's Board can largely decide how it wants to deal
> >with conflict of interest.
>
> Yes.
>
> > In many cases, simple disclosure of potential
> >conflict is enough.
>
> Yes, and the policy (which is on the website for anyone to look at) has
> lots of cases like that.



> The Trustees have been extremely careful not to exclude anyone from being
> a Trustee when there is a less-drastic remedy.


The BoT as a collective might be inclined to be careful not to exclude
anyone from being a Trustee, but sometimes certain personal dynamics might
operate in the BoT which might allow one or two interested Trustees to game
the provisions to perempt one or more eligible candidates from being
considered eligible.  A theoretical possibility ? Or probable ?


> As I pointed out before, this extends so far that Trustees can be excluded
> from discussions related to PIR, which has the nasty consequence that one
> or more Trustee(s) might be excluded from discussions of the largest source
> of the Internet Society's income.
>
> Chapters are a special case, which is I believe why they got treated
> differently in this policy.
>
> Best regards,
>
> A
>
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