On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 06:13:50AM -0700, Eric Rescorla wrote: > On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 12:16 AM S Moonesamy <sm+ietf@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > At 10:33 AM 25-04-2019, Sean Turner wrote: > > >The CoI disclosures are private because people may have other > > >commitments that cannot be made public due to their contractual or > > >employment obligations. > > > > Why would a person performing work which is described as > > "administrative" have contractual obligations which have to be concealed? > > This doesn't seem that difficult: suppose that I am a contractor who > does some work for a company which is also doing some kind of business > with the LLC, but my contract with that company requires me to keep it > confidential. Or, alternately, suppose that my spouse or other close > relative is a contractor for such a company. What would be confidential, the work or the contractual relationship? Why should a confidential contractual relationship not be mutually exclusive with being a board member of this organization? Nico --