Excellent question asked at ICANN Public Forum on 25 October 2018

[farzaneh badii]

I think what Marilyn is raising is very valid and we need to have
safeguards to prevent it from happening. There has to be some C
On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 12:14 PM Ayden Férdeline <icann at ferdeline.com>
wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> A colleague from the Business Constituency asked an excellent question at
> the Public Forum last Thursday. I have copied and pasted the dialogue
> below, including the rather unsatisfactory response:
>
> *MARILYN CADE: My name is Marilyn Cade. Recently, a senior executive with
> extremely deep knowledge and even, perhaps, operational knowledge, of
> ICANN's contracted parties and competitive information and details left
> ICANN to become the CEO of a company that only a day before he left, he was
> overseeing, as ICANN is a surrogate for a regulatory system through its
> contractual relationships with the contracted parties. I have no doubt he
> was  excellent at his job, which means he holds in his mind much
> information that is about  competition issues and operational issues about
> ICANN org. *
>
>
> *Everyone has a right to work, and I ask the Board not to respond that
> California is a right-to-work state in the United States. I'm quite aware
> of this.*
>
>
> *Having an agreement with high-level executives about how
> competition-related issues and what is called corporate secrets or
> proprietary or confidential information about the organization is customary
> in most countries when it comes to at least executive-level employees. It
> is routinely put into the employment contracts with senior executives. And
> lobbying contacts and reviewing and contacting staff they have employed,
> whether it is up the chain or down the chain, and the Board is typically
> barred for at least a year. ICANN org and  the ICANN Board should
> understand that many in the community are concerned about the  concept
> called a revolving door. There should be some kind of a cooling-off period
> and a requirement that there is no contact on behalf of the new employer
> with those staff that have  been supervised or with the Board that may be
> misunderstood. Perceptions that don't reflect reality can still harm
> ICANN's integrity and lead to distrust in our organization, which must
> fulfill the highest standards of ethical behavior.*
>
> *CHERINE CHALABY: I'll take this.*
>
> *SARAH DEUTSCH: Cherine.*
>
> *CHERINE CHALABY: Thank you, Marilyn, and thank you, Amadeu. I think we
> owe you an answer to this question and we will do that after the break and
> after this session. So just give us time to respond to it properly. So
> thank you very  much. Good question. We owe  the  community an answer on
> that.*
>
> *MARILYN CADE: And in follow-up what I will say is in only a couple of
> weeks, a number of governments who are not necessarily well informed about
> ICANN will be gathering in a different setting, and there, I know, will be
> at least hallway conversations about this. So I think it is important for
> us to have an answer. Thank you.*
>
> *CHERINE CHALABY: Thank you.*
>
> *SARAH DEUTSCH: Thank you. Yeah.*
>
> The video is here (from 45:50):
> https://livestream.com/icannmeeting/events/8416143/videos/182475607
>
> The full transcript is here:
> https://static.ptbl.co/static/attachments/192307/1540577759.pdf?1540577759
>
> Best wishes,
> Ayden Férdeline
>
-- 
Farzaneh
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