> - Why isn't this aiming to end up being a document subject to IETF > consensus? I can imagine there may be good or bad reasons for > either doing this via the IETF process or not doing it via the > IETF process, but I wondered - it seems like this is not just > some minor operational thing, and considering these issues and > aiming to get IETF consensus on how/when to declare conflicts > of interest could be useful more generally. Is there something > substantially different about the trust in this respect vs. > other IETF roles such as chair, author, AD etc? IANAL, but I think the answer is yes: a Trust does have a very specific legal status, in a way that the IETF or IAB don't have. So I think it's normal that the Trust enacts its own CoI policy, and of course correct that the Trust asks for community input first. > - Some trustees are selected by nomcom or other bodies. Wouldn't > those proposing themselves for selection need to say something > about known conflicts to selecting bodies like nomcom, so that > we don't select folks who are conflicted out of being useful? > And doesn't that mean that the list of conflicts needs to be > public? And why shouldn't it be public? (Or did you intend it > to be public? I wasn't sure.) I think it would be good practice to make it public (even if certain details were kept private). But it isn't just at selection time; a new CoI could arise anytime, e.g. due to a change of job. Brian