--On Monday, 24 January, 2005 08:23 +0100 Harald Tveit
Alvestrand <harald(_at_)alvestrand(_dot_)no> wrote:
7 (Transparency): While I understand the desire for
transparency, there may be some contracts that contain items
that are justifiably
treated as confidential (such as individual performance
rewards,
terms of settlement of litigation). To address this point, I
might add the following words at the end of the penultimate
sentence:
", subject to any reasonable confidentiality obligations
approved
by the IAD."
Harald, given the general commitment in the community and
document to transparancy whenever possible, I wonder whether
the IAD should be empowered to do this or should, e.g., be
required to report the terms and nature of what
confidentiality obligations are being assumed to the IAOC so
that they can review it as appropriate. Note that I'm not
proposing disclosing the confidential information to them,
but it seems to me to be reasonable to tell them the nature
of what is being kept secret and why.
hm. I could certainly argue that the IAOC should approve at
least the criteria that the IAD uses to determine that some
confidentiality is "OK", and could also argue that the IAOC,
being IASA oversight, ought to be able to look at all the
"confidential" parts of things if it needed to.
We could move the approval up to the IAOC with no loss in
confidentiality, and with some gain in
transparency/accountability, I think.
That would certainly be consistent with what I was suggesting.
john
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