[address-policy-wg] Staff participation in the IP market

In message <22C51275-C6AD-45FB-879E-418DE2C5EBED at ripe.net>, 
Felipe Victolla Silveira <fvictolla at ripe.net> wrote:

>Thank you for your question. We have an internal code of conduct that 
>applies to all staff and has a section on conflicts of interest. This 
>covers these kinds of situations.
>
>Violating the code of conduct could result in an employee being 
>dismissed - this would obviously depend on the details of the case. 
>Certainly, anything involving the transfer market and especially the use 
>of inside or confidential information would be taken seriously.
>
>Regarding whether there is a RIPE policy that covers this, it would be 
>out of scope for community policy to determine internal staffing matters 
>at the RIPE NCC.


Thank you Felipe.  Your answer is a good one and entirely appropriate in
all respects.

Now I will just be hoping that I can get a similar answer from each of
the other RIRs.

If any of the other RIRs have not yet adequately considered this issue,
I will be pointing them at your response to my question and asking them
to likewise adopt... as RIPE has done... internal codes of conduct with
clear and express provisions regarding possible conflicts of interest,
especially as they might relate to the IP trading market.


Regards,
rfg