Dear Vanda,

I totally concur with your proposal here. Sooner or later, the sooner the better, we must adress the inefficiency and dishonesty that lie behind your assessment here. First priority, of course, should accrue to decertification of ALS that have no record of participation whatsoever. Next of course is looking at realities like: does the organization actually exist? is it legally registered in the country (unless there are overwhelming reasons not to)? Does it operate internally? Does it hold meetings, online discussions, public events, policy interventions? In the case of institutions, like universities, is the participant effectively designated by the authorities of the instiution, or are we just dragging on inertially? does the institution even know it is represented, does it have a known policy position regarding the DNS, the domain-names market, IP addresses, Internet stabiity, openness and reliability, tradmearks, etc.? In cases of prolonged tenures, have there been considerations for replacement, generational transitions or accompaniment (we are talking 25 years already!), mentoring, tutoring, outreach towards a new generation? Interestingly, for universities, why is it they don't find a replacement or successor among their students and academics, in 20+ years which means at least 5 cycles of full classes? There may be legitimate answers but we need to be able to scrutinize them. The lack of transparency is not only tiresome, it opens the whole community to serious accusations. 

Every "no" answer reflects negatively on the whold even if the individual answers remain hidden from the Board and the public. 

Alejandro Pisanty

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De: Vanda Scartezini via lac-discuss-en <lac-discuss-en@icann.org>
Enviado: sábado, 7 de marzo de 2026 03:33 p. m.
Para: Lance Hinds; LACRALO discussion list
Asunto: [lac-discuss-en] Re: Announcement of the Results of the At-Large Seat 15 Director Selection.

 

Thank you, Lance, was a good move! congrats. 

The results in numbers of ALS show the urgent need to decertify those ALS that never participated to not have this shameful percentage of participation. 

In reality, I believe we have around 30 ALS that are really participating, so the percentage of participants in such a relevant selection, even if not a good one, at least makes us look less inefficient. 

kisses,

Vanda 

From: Lance Hinds via lac-discuss-en <lac-discuss-en@icann.org>
Date: Friday, 20 February 2026 at 12:09
To: LAC-Discuss-en <lac-discuss-en@icann.org>, LACRALO ES <lac-discuss-es@icann.org>
Subject: [lac-discuss-en] Announcement of the Results of the At-Large Seat 15 Director Selection.

Good morning all.

The following are the results of the survey taken by the LACRALO ALSs on the candidates contesting the vacant seat (No.15) on the ICANN Board of Directors

First Preference

Lito Ibarra -       12 ALSs
Justine Chew - 6 ALSs

Second preference

Sebastian Bachollet 9 ALSs
Maureen Hilyard        6 ALSs
Justine Crew              3 ALSs
Lito Ibarra                    1 ALSs

Third Preference

Maureen Hilyard     13ALSs
Justine Chew            3ALSs
Lito Ibarra                   2 ALSs
Sebastian Bachollet 1 ALS

Fourth Preference

Sebastian Bachollet  9 ALSs
Justine Chew               7 ALSs
Lito Ibarra                     3 ALSs

We also wish to also advise on the following:

1) That It was the LACRALO leadership who specifically asked ICANN staff to develop a survey to ascertain the views of the RALO on the candidates. No other RALO conducted a similar survey.

2) That the link to the survey were sent to the email address of the primary contact for each ALS

3) That In terms of participation in the selection process,18 of the 62 ALSs participated in the survey. 

4) That 9 of the 62 ALSs attended the Meet the Candidates session.

For your information and guidance 

Lance 

Chair, LACRALO

 


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