An open, honest and transparent network does not exist yet. Don't broker offers from other networks, just don't. Pay ON TIME, every time, if you miss a payment my trust is gone. Make an in house built tracking platform and optimize it to the very last bit so that everyone can get good conversions. As also stated numerous times - don't shave. Or if you do shave, since you're going to make a transparent network, tell the affiliates that you are shaving. Now here comes another concern, how are you to guarantee that you're not going to become greedy at some point? Hope you're catching my drift here. Please do realize that if you're going to go for a transparent, open and honest network, the usual twists and bullshit that every network goes with will not pull it off, and people are going to know right from the very start if your network will truly be transparent. You need to do something different, or take a radically different approach to pull this off ( I'm not sure if you understand me here, but I hope you do, don't know how to explain it better ).
I'm not having my hopes up high at all to be honest, but I do wish for such a network to appear. Only time will tell.
Honestly, I've been around for a long time and as much as I like IM, affiliate marketing or the game, there's just as much hate within me, if not more than the love. If I have to go over the bad sides it's all going to go down to 1 word - pigsty. A disgusting pigsty.