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Re: Author disclosures and conflict of interest

John C Klensin <john-ietf@jck.com> Sun, 27 April 2014 23:26 UTC

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From: John C Klensin <john-ietf@jck.com>
To: David Farmer <farmer@umn.edu>, lrosen@rosenlaw.com, 'IETF' <ietf@ietf.org>
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--On Friday, April 25, 2014 16:28 -0500 David Farmer
<farmer@umn.edu> wrote:

>...
> I think the best we can do is encourage everyone to
> voluntarily disclose the interests they represent and for
> authors in particular to acknowledge non-obvious interests
> they may be representing; being any interests that are not be
> obvious from their stated affiliation.

Agreed, but I think "authors" needs to be extended to include
anyone in a decision or consensus-determining role.  That
includes at least WG Chairs, ADs, appointed experts of various
sorts.  And I think we probably ought to have at least an
informal norm that decisions made under circumstances in which
there were no disclosures of important relationships that might
have made a difference are, to the extent practicable,
appeal-able whenever those relationships become known.

   john

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