Here is a dictionary definition of "Beyond reproach":
Beyond reproach: So good as to preclude any possibility of criticism.
Last time I looked, RFC 3777 did not include this definition as a requirement
for the nomcom in selection of I* candidates.
Good thing, too. We seem to have "gotten by" with candidates with occasional
imperfections over the years.
Given the impossibility of populating all leadership positions with individuals
"beyond reproach", or even defining all potentially problematic behaviors, what
is the way forward? How do we move "beyond reproach"?
Years ago, the Direct Marketing Association Nonprofit Federation (of all
people) published an article called 'Moving Beyond Reproach' that talks about
moving beyond accountability initiatives:
http://www.the-dma.org/nonprofitfederation/March2005final.pdf
Some quotes:
"though nonprofits could seemingly drown in the flood of accountability
initiatives, there is virtually no support for nonprofit leaders in dealing
with actual ethical crises..."
"it is clear that the nonprofit sector can do more good by focusing on ways to
provide real support for dealing with actual crises than by trying to abolish
them by decree."
Some food for thought.
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On Wednesday, April 22, 2009 Clint Chaplin said:
"...Popper said that it is reasonable to assume that sooner or later
some rotten scoundrels will gain power. It's not important who they
will be precisely, but whatever your political views might be you must
agree that a likelihood of such an event is rather high. So whatever
law you want to have in your country, don't ask yourself the question
"how this law can be used in good hands". Ask the question "how this
law can be used when the filthiest, dirtiest, stupidest bastards will
rule my country (and sooner or later they probably will)".
Only the
law that cannot be used to do anything wrong EVEN by the most vicious
ruler is truly good...."
On 4/22/09, Phillip Hallam-baker also wrote:
One of the commentators in a recent thread suggested that another person was
"beyond reproach". That has been worrying me as a security person for a number
of reasons. Not least the fact that in my business nobody is ever beyond
reproach.
For the past eight years the establishment press in this country told us daily
that suggesting that the 'president' was not beyond reproach was tantamount to
committing treason,
It seems to me that many of the social infrastructures that have developed
over the years by IETF members suffer from being dependent on being run by
individuals who are and must be beyond reproach.
That is a very fragile model.
If someone is beyond reproach they are beyond accountability.
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