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I would argue that disclosure to the general public is, indeed inappropriate, except as part of any treasurers report as noted below. However, disclosure to the membership is not disclosure to the public. It is disclosure to the “owners” of the business who by the very nature of this discussion are obviously decision makers in the process. It is pretty normal to disclose quote details to the decision makers. Is there a MICE-MEMBERS list that isn’t open to the public? If not, certainly disclosure to individual members that request the data (consider this such a request from Akamai) is entirely appropriate. As a practical matter, since no NDA exists here, I agree not to further disclose the numbers to anyone outside of those that would legitimately have input on the decision or in authoring feedback from Akamai (strictly Akamai internal). Owen > On Feb 1, 2018, at 19:51 , Richard Laager <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > On 02/01/2018 09:32 PM, David Farmer wrote: >> your fiduciary responsibility to the membership comes first, agreeing to >> keep the total expenditure confidential once made would not be >> inconsistent with that responsibility in my opinion. > > I assume you meant "would not be consistent" or "would be inconsistent". > > I have not made any specific or additional confidentiality or > non-disclosure agreements as part of this process. Arista has not made > any requests in this regard beyond the boilerplate on their quote > documents. I am just trying to honor what I see as the normal convention > in such matters. > > I do not anticipate any change in the normal treasurer's reports. That > is, yes, I expect the payments will be disclosed once made as usual. > > If the guidance from the membership is that this is unacceptable and I > should publicly disclose all the numbers now, I can put that to Arista. > > -- > Richard