--On Thursday, January 9, 2020 13:14 +0000 Stewart Bryant <stewart.bryant@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 8 Jan 2020, at 23:14, IAB Chair <iab-chair@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> The IAB requires that all Covered Individuals disclose their >> main employment, sponsorship, consulting customer, or other >> sources of income when joining the IAB or whenever there are >> updates. > Is this to be a public or a private register of interests? Stewart's question is important for what may be an additional reason. There is a fairly long history of IAB members who often show up as "independent" but who are full-time consultants with multiple clients (as distinct from those who serve in consulting, rather than employee, roles but with one principal client). They may have, in the words of the draft, no "main employment, sponsorship, consulting customer, ...". In those situations, it isn't terribly unusual for consulting agreements to contain requirements that the relationship not be disclosed by either party without mutual consent. I've had little trouble getting consent when there is a substantive reason that doesn't threaten the reasons for the confidentiality provision and there are provisions to keep the information from becoming generally known, but completely public disclosures would probably not fly. I'd assume that someone working for, or a principal of, a stealth startup might face similar constraints. While I applaud the IAB's coming to grips with this issue, let's be sure we don't do anything that limits the diversity or range of skills and perspectives of people who can serve on the IAB as an accidental side-effect of a well-intentioned policy. john
