--On Friday, April 25, 2014 16:28 -0500 David Farmer <farmer@xxxxxxx> wrote: >... > I think the best we can do is encourage everyone to > voluntarily disclose the interests they represent and for > authors in particular to acknowledge non-obvious interests > they may be representing; being any interests that are not be > obvious from their stated affiliation. Agreed, but I think "authors" needs to be extended to include anyone in a decision or consensus-determining role. That includes at least WG Chairs, ADs, appointed experts of various sorts. And I think we probably ought to have at least an informal norm that decisions made under circumstances in which there were no disclosures of important relationships that might have made a difference are, to the extent practicable, appeal-able whenever those relationships become known. john