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    Canadians Connected 2022 (CIRA AGM)

    @FM I tagged you as you posted the agenda. To be clear I never suggested or described myself as an expert on governance although I do have some competence - and possibly more than some - experience and interest. The issue I was trying to bring to light is that there is much scope for abuse of...
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    Canadians Connected 2022 (CIRA AGM)

    @FM, Missing from the AGM agenda is that CIRA members get to select (actually approve) the auditors as the auditors work on members behalf (not the Board or management). That means that members have a statutory right to question the auditors. Because the Board is accountable to the members...
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    Canadians Connected 2022 (CIRA AGM)

    @FM, The question on CIRA membership may need some further clarification and investigation. The CIRA web site, with a policy dated probably 2000, talks about have a Canadian presence and being Canadian (citizen or permanent resident, etc.). You also must have a “.ca” domain (once or always?)...
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    Canadians Connected 2022 (CIRA AGM)

    Not sure that I am the one that is confused. My point was that most of the candidates for the Member slate - bar possibly one -while having strong technical expertise for the most part - did not have corporate governance experience while claiming either being advanced or expert. Members of...
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    Canadians Connected 2022 (CIRA AGM)

    While open, as FM suggests, should you have board governance experience to sit on a Board? For example, many candidates - if not the vast majority - for the CIRA member slate claim advanced or expert level experience but don't show any. A jury is a group of peers drawn from society at large...
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    Value of a top level domain name

    The important point is that CIRA claims it is a commercial not for profit that receives no government support or grants. Yet the government grants CIRA the license for free. Is that worth something? As much as VPN.com - more or less? But probably not $0, not worthless. Furthermore, every...
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    Value of a top level domain name

    What is the value of the ".ca" domain name (cc tld)? what would you pay to have that license from GoC? worth nothing or how many millions?
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    CIRA CEO Compensation disclosure

    That link asserts that all compensation was done according to Hoyle and in effect that members don't need to know much else - unlike all public companies trading on public markets and other institutions such as ICANN (and a host of others that realize they work in the public interest). Of...
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    CIRA CEO Compensation disclosure

    ICANN (incorporated in California), is no more a charity than CIRA (incorporated in Canada and subject to CNPA), while each is subject to acts that each is incorporated under. In Canada, federally incorporated not for profit corporations – exempt from “tax” – have 3 sub categories: charity...
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    CIRA CEO Compensation disclosure

    The word "requirement" has a fuzzy meaning. In law there is a distinction between "must" and "should". In Canada, publicly listed companies must disclose CEO and NEO compensation, for reasons of transparency so that CEOs and other executives are not simply enriching themselves, while acting...
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    CIRA CEO Compensation disclosure

    Are you sure that ICANN is a charity? There are 75,000 charities of 170,000 Not for profits in Canada. All Not For Profits must act in public interest - and many publicly listed companies recognize that they too need to consider public interest. There should be no doubt that CIRA has a...
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    CIRA CEO Compensation disclosure

    FYI, ICANN publishes "Compensation of Officers, Directors, Trustees, Key Employees, Highest Compensated Employees, and Independent Contractors" as well as its tax filing. It is open and transparent, working in public interest. Visit Page 10 of...
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    CIRA elections & the member list

    This is the CIRA trope, a way of doing business. Put out false information and then have people repeat it.
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    CIRA elections & the member list

    WHC.ca, you have incorrect information that needs correction. I ran a survey asking members their thoughts on governance, as I had previously talked to members at events in Vancouver, Calgary and Toronto. On other boards I have been on, I always want to hear directly from members how the...
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    CIRA elections & the member list

    Mapledots et al You make some interesting and good points. Note I spent 3 years on the CIRA Board. I wrote long pieces – position papers – on what to improve in CIRA governance. No one on the Board was interested in a discussion. They seemed in bed with the CEO and acted more like his...
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