On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 11:31 AM Nico Williams <nico@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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?
The second.
Why should a confidential contractual relationship not be mutually
exclusive with being a board member of this organization?
I think the question is rather why *should* it be.
-Ekr
Nico
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