On Tue, 12 Jun 2007, Alan Barrett wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Jun 2007, Dean Anderson wrote:
> > There is an appearance of impropriety because Austein is on both sides
> > of the transaction: For ISC and also for IETF DNSOP WG.
>
> What "transaction" are you referring to? Please be specific. I was
> not aware of any exchange of services, money, patents, trademarks, or
> anything else, between ISC and the DNSOP working group.
The transaction here is the business before the WG. In this WG business,
ISC (includes Austein) opposes an addition to the draft (one side), and
ISC (Austein) is "directing" WG decisions to reject the addition to the
draft (the other side).
The ethics of the transaction is independent of the value of the
transaction. The issue of transaction value and fairness of the value
would be the subject of a claim seeking restitution of a fraud. I don't
have any opinion on whether fraud has actually occurred and I don't know
that fraud has occurred. Often, the details establishing a value and
fairness are discovered as a result of investigation of the ethical
issue.
I'm working on a longer analysis of the issues and the dispute. I'll put
this on the web, but I haven't decided a URL yet. There are some curious
and interesting things in the dispute.
--Dean
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