Re: [gnso-osc-ops] DOI

[Eric Brunner-Williams <ebw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah, but are you going to advocate for a SOI or DOI rule change that 
would advance your material interest as the author of this paper?
Suppose you had to write papers on ICANN to get tenure. That's an 
interest, but anyone anywhere could have that interest, say Milton's 
non-evil twin who stays quietly at home at Podunk U's j-school. There 
is no effect on the process or outcome.
Now suppose you want to write a paper about how ICANN is (an absurd 
phrase I ran across yesterday in an unrelated context) "in typical 
Marxist-Leninist fashion, the [ICANN]ese relied on the old 
“counterpoint” tactic from the Communist playbook", manifested by 
being uncharitably mean to kittens.
To support the position stated in your paper you'd have to advocate or 
subtly cause to be advocated policies of uncharitable meanness to 
kittens. [This assumes the ICANNese are not innately uncharitably mean 
to kittens, a fact not in evidence.]
There a material interest as the author of some paper written from 
professional or financial advancement exists, and should be declared. 
Otherwise, not.
Eric