<span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',Sans-Serif; font-size: 14px"><div>I think sometimes people, including Board members, get confused about their fiduciary responsibility to the corporation. Having seen some of the "advice" ICANN Legal neuters...umm, gives them...it is no surprise. Having a special relationship with the group that appointed you is not prohibited by any fiduciary responsibility a Board member may have to the corporation. Along the lines of what Tapani has suggested - why should the NCPH appoint anyone at all - I'd be interested in what Board members think their responsibility is.</div>
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<div>Ed Morris</div>
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<div><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><b>From</b>: "Tapani Tarvainen" <ncsg@TAPANI.TARVAINEN.INFO><br />
<b>Sent</b>: Wednesday, March 8, 2017 7:20 AM<br />
<b>To</b>: NCSG-DISCUSS@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU<br />
<b>Subject</b>: Re: ICANN Copenhagen, questions from and to the Board</span>
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On Tue, Mar 07, 2017 at 08:33:13PM +0000, Mueller, Milton L (milton@GATECH.EDU) wrote:<br />
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> > -----Original Message-----<br />
> > > NCPH is in the process of selecting its Board member.<br />
> > > What advice would you give us in what to look for in a candidate?<br />
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> You could probably get more mileage out of this by asking more<br />
> specifically about how non-contracted stakeholders can balance and<br />
> improve board decisions and deliberations.<br />
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Good point. Making it more specific would make it harder for them<br />
to reply with something trivial.<br />
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> If I know ICANN, they may revert to their old line that board<br />
> members don't represent any specific interest group but must set all<br />
> that aside and take a vow of allegiance to ICANN the corporation.<br />
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Yes. As Farzi noted, George Sadowsky brought that up in Reykjavík<br />
(not surprisingly).<br />
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> However, if that's the case why have NCPH appoint its own board<br />
> member? Might be interesting to see how they handle that...<br />
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Yeah... perhaps we should phrase the question around that,<br />
what's the purpose in having NCPH appoint its own board member.<br />
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On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 08:43:12AM +0900, Rafik Dammak (rafik.dammak@GMAIL.COM) wrote:<br />
> Hi,<br />
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> I am not sure that is a good idea to ask the board on that matter. the<br />
> board already gives input to the nomcom about the skills set they are<br />
> "suggesting" for board members and what they think is needed to fill a gap<br />
> e.g. experience on finance etc (Bill and Brenden can provide more<br />
> information). I would expect they will give the same input, in addition to<br />
> the comment of a board member doesn't represent a specific group. so I am<br />
> wondering they should give advice or suggestion on how we selected a board<br />
> member for NCPH seat.<br />
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You may be right. It would take some care to phrase the question so it<br />
could get something new out of them. Maybe along the lines Milton<br />
suggested.<br />
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Tapani Tarvainen<br />
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