On Mon, May 06, 2019 at 02:01:40PM -0700, Eric Rescorla wrote: > 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. After reading more of this thread I think I agree. The LLC board can live with that. We should, however, consider having CoI statements for the IESG.
