Excellent question asked at ICANN Public Forum on 25 October 2018

[farzaneh badii]

Sorry sent in a hurry.. There has to be some cooling off period for sure
and I think we should follow up on this

On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 12:32 PM farzaneh badii <farzaneh.badii at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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Farzaneh
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