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