Dear Sergio: The translation provided by the list is particularly hard on your Spanish text. So in order to ensure that I have the best sense of the meaning of your comments, I have used the Google translation engine to render your response into English. This effort follows my response. The procedure for proxy voting was placed on the list more than *one month* before the GA. If you thought the Secretariat was not competent or honest to receive notification for a proxy as per the procedure, you had a duty of care to address it in a timely manner. That you did not is again evidence of your own meagre contribution to the substantive work of LACRALO over these many years. If you had a concern on the procedure itself as was recorded on the list, it is not recorded before now. This is evidence of your lack of attention or understanding of the substantive work of LACRALO, even when the details are presented. It is late in the day and clearly in effort of this campaign of yours to collect another "presidential" ribbon. But it is not a good sign for your ambitions. Every single member has had a chance to audit their votes. And all the votes are validated, including the proxies. I therefore take personal exception to what seems like implied malfeasance to my work as both Secretariat of LACRALO and Presiding Officer at the GA. This is evidence of a lack of intellectual rigour and personal integrity. Becasue it seems that when it is convenient, you appeal to my good office and standing in the community to enable your agenda. But in your zeal to be "el Presidente", my good name is being tarnished. So you know, these are well beneath my contempt. The University of the West Indies was the only Caribbean vote in your favor at the GA. My Caribbean colleagues have asked me on several occasions to explain my vote. Both Sylvia Leite and you would understand there was a principle at stake. In any event, I take full responsibility for that mistake. It will never happen again. What is important to note now is that the Caribbean caucus has noted your further attempt to question our legitimacy in LACRALO and here forward, shall retain this in our memory. Furthemore, since you raised the AUI-Peru proxy as an issue, you should understand that the plain language restricted the exercise to the election for LACRALO representative to ALAC and that only. In fact, the email from Johnny Laureano came ONLY after I was approached about AUI-Peru voting and I repeated the procedure to his (and your) emissary. Her again, the evidence of lack of attention to details. I have included the email from AUI-Peru in its original Spanish hereunder: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Johnny Laureano <jlaureano@aui.pe>reply-tojlaureano@aui.pe tocarlton.samuels@uwimona.edu.jm ccbronstein.sergio@gmail.com dateTue, Mar 3, 2009 at 5:24 AMsubjectOtorgamiento de Poder a representante de Internauta Venezuela para elecciones de representantes de la región en ICANN hide details Mar 3 Reply Estimado Carlton Samuels, Secretario del LACRALO-ICANN Luego de mis cordiales saludos, para expresarle a través del presente el otorgamiento de poder en favor de Sergio Bronstein de Internauta Venezuela, para que en representación de la Asociación de Usuarios de Internet del Perú - AUI PERU, pueda ejercer el voto de la AUI PERU para las elecciones de representantes al At-Large Advisory Committee de ICANN. Reiterando mis saludos y consideraciones, quedo de usted. Atentamente, Ing. Johnny Laureano Presidente Asociación de Usuarios de Internet del Perú ALS-ICANN jlaureano@aui.pe Telf. Cel. 51-1-995274283" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Your assertions as to what transpired for the LACRALO Teleconference is not just wrong but is evidence of a major weakness in assessment. You did not participate in preparing the meeting agenda although this was requested with ample time for your input. You did not object to the draft agenda that I prepared and circulated with the help of At-Large staff. All these require substantive work. And in this regard, you were missing, yet again. Once the work for organising the meeting is complete, you seem to be asserting an organic right to chair. Since you were not elected as Chair of LACRALO, that assertion is again purely an emblem of this threadbare ambition to be "el Presidente", regardless of facts and legitimacy. Finally, I believe your assertions on staff contact with certain parties on electoral matters borders on public mischief. But I shall leave it to the At-Large Staff to respond. Kindest regards, Carlton Samuels The University of the West Indies ======================================================================================================================== <Google Translation> After receiving your message with the chronology of events in the last General Assembly of the LAC RALO, I thought proper to send the following comments, which are referred to the ALAC request along with your report.
Stressed that in recent weeks I have chosen to remain silent, privileging the institutional health of the body as LACRALO collective over the individualities.
However, in view of the inaccuracies identified in the report that have prepared, I feel obliged to make a series of clarifications:
The report omitted details of the utmost importance and relevance that make the facts occurred far from the chronology contained in it.
In 1st place was avoided include (for no apparent reason), also presented the power AUI of Peru, who sent his mandate in a neat, sending a representative to (Mr. Sergio Bronstein Internauta of Venezuela), with copy to Mr. Carlton Samuels, the it was so sure that it does not fall into the hands of a person who be judge and party in the assembly, leaving doubts about its legitimacy.
Similarly, the other three powers came to the same person who was president of the assembly, were not shown to anyone, and simply informed by email the existence of such powers (why no copy was sent to another participant for faith that the same?). It seems that by displaying links to the mails sent by Carlton Samuels, wanted to endorse the message itself, not the mandate delivered by these or organizations that were conducted in accordance with the rules of the LACRALO.
It also failed to mention in the report actually was proclaimed a winner of the elections (which is exactly who supports, Sergio Salinas Porto), and I was put in duties immediately after the election. Since that time, played formally as president of the LACRALO, both in the ICANN meeting in Mexico, as later through contacts with regional organizations.
I also wish to stress that - at least when a questionable attitude in its transparency-see attached e-mails that [i] -, I convened a teleconference in which I was the only one who did not know that the legitimacy of my presidency was questioned. The teleconference was in English, without simultaneous translation, and my ability to understand the problem and present the corresponding defenses was severely limited. In fact, I asked repeatedly to explain that I was clearly speaking of the Mr Nick Ashton and Andrew Hart Piazza, which could not understand. Then Matthias Langenegg informed me that should make my position (or at least it was his understanding) because the staff had identified that the president was Andrew Square (there was never anyone that I had read that a recount of votes and we had to send monitors for this or that the ICANN staff was dismissed and who was put in office to another person other than who was proclaimed president in a General Assembly, in accordance with the rules of the LACRALO).
I should also note that, after a few hours had been prepared in another call which involved some ALSs - but without a quorum - in which I was not allowed to exercise the presidency of LACRALO in violent, discriminatory and with abuse, headed by Mr. Carlton Samuels, who, despite having no capacity to chair the meeting - because it was me that role to me, at least until duly discussed the topic with a new General Assembly.
These facts show that after the first call to which I refer, I shifted from the position for which I was duly elected by the Assembly, without the decision to consult with that body, and only after the decision by the ICANN staff.
These facts are of a very serious institution, both because of the remoteness of rules we have agreed, for it represents a clear and direct interference staff on issues that should have been discussed by the members of the ALSs RALO.
The complaints of Mr. Carlos Andrés Aguirre and Mr. Piazza were addressed in the Staff Instead of the assembly - would have received as -. Rather than give the matter the channel correct, we chose to solve the problem in a manner contrary to the rules of the LAC RALO
Note that I omitted - with effort - make any reference in a personal capacity about what happened. I would say, however, would have liked to be treated in a more fairly and respectfully during this traumatic process.
I hope this is helpful to recall some issues in his chronology, cover and omissions - surely unintentional - of the report. We ask that accompany this note and its attachments with it, since the circumstances described here must be taken into consideration by the ALAC and the members of the LACRALO. Sergio Salinas Porto
President