[lac-discuss-en] Possible RALO Petition Process to Suggest Additional ICANN Board Director Candidates
Dear All,
As you are aware, we are in a process for the At-large community to participate
in the process of choosing the 15th position for the ICANN board.
On 16 December 2016, the BCEC concluded its Candidate Evaluation process and
announced that the following Candidates will be named as the (initial) BCEC
Slate of Candidates, be automatically included in the Final Slate, and go
forward to the next stage of the selection process organized by the BMSPC. The
Candidates, listed in alphabetical order of the last name, are:
Alan Greenberg (Canada)
Leon Felipe Sanchez Ambia (Mexico)
In spite of the above, LACRALO has the option to incorporate more candidates to
this list. The candidates that can be incorporated are the following:
Sebastien Bachollet (France)
William Michael Cunningham (United States)
Hago Dafalla (Libya)
Nigel Phair (Australia)
Candidates will be added only if they receive support through a formal vote of
at least three of the five RALOs; each RALO shall vote according to its
respective rules. Subsequently, the Final Slate of Candidates will proceed to
an election by the ALAC Members and RALO Chairs, which is culmination of the
ICANN Board Director selection process.
We want to emphasize that the proposal of adding candidates is an OPTION and
not an obligation. We can conclude that we do not want to add new candidates to
the list.
As a result of the above, a discussion process will open that will run until
January 9, 2016. The discussion will be carried out in LACRALO's mailing list
and in the wiki in the following link
<https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=63155261>.
If there is consensus or a majority opinion that we must add a new candidate,
an election process will be open, and it will run from January 12, 2017 until
January 18, 2017.
Regards
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