Call for Nominations of candidates to fill two seats on LACNIC´s Board of Directors
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According to the bylaws and the calendar approved, LACNIC´s Electoral Commission calls for nomination of candidates to fill two seats on LACNIC´s Board of Directors that will become vacant on December 31, 2005 with the ending of Oscar Messano and Oscar Robles terms. The election will be carried out according to the following conditions:
Requirements to be nominated:
The person to be appointed to fill a seat on the Board of Directors must be nominated by a member organization through its membership contact, who is the person selected by each organization to exercise the membership rights.
The organization must be up to date with its dues and the nominated candidate may or may not belong to this organization. Only members who have the right of vote are allowed to nominate candidates. According to the bylaws, these members are: Active A, B and Active Founding members. (The complete text of the bylaws is available at: http://lacnic.net/en/sobre-lacnic/estatuto/index.html)
Restrictions for candidate nomination and election
According to the new wording of Article 20 of LACNIC's bylaws, "… not more than two of these Directors may be elected from among persons having legal domicile in the same country, and not more than one Director who has employment, consultancy or advisory relationships with the same Company and/or with one of its Related Companies established or not in the same country..”
Should it be necessary, the Electoral Commission will adopt the necessary criteria to apply the restrictions dictated by the bylaws.
Candidatures must be submitted via e-mail to: membership@lacnic.net with the subject: "Candidature for LACNIC´s Board of Directors" with the following format:
Name of candidate:
E-mail of candidate:
Name of the person who nominates the candidate:
Organization of the person nominating the candidate:
Motivation for nomination:
CALENDAR:
| Summon for Elections | August 15 | |
| Submission of candidatures period | Aug. 15 – Oct. 14 | 5:00 p.m. (UTC -2 hs) |
| Closing of the voter registration list | Oct. 14 | |
| Reception of claims about voter registration list | Oct. 17 – 31 | 5:00 p.m. (UTC -2 hs) |
| Publication of candidates´ statements, acknowledgement of candidatures, questions to the candidates | Oct. 17–Nov. 13 | 5:00 p.m. (UTC -2 hs) |
| Voting period | Nov. 14 - 24 | 5:00 p.m. (UTC -2 hs) |
| Announcement of elected candidates | December 2 |
The actual voting will take place through the Internet on LACNIC's web page.
Members have the right to present one candidate for each seat to be filled.
Each member has one designated member representative (membership contact) who is eligible to cast one vote. This individual will receive the voting instructions via e-mail containing details of the election, voting instructions and information to be provided when casting the vote. LACNIC must have this individual's name and personalized e-mail address on record. The accuracy of this information is solely responsibility of the members. In no way LACNIC will be responsible for the precision or updating of this information.
Organizations that have not updated their information yet, please refer to our web page: http://lacnic.net/en/update.html where the detailed updating process is explained.
Starting on the day the voting instructions are e-mailed to the members, they will have a period of 15 days in order to make questions regarding their membership (membership category, number of votes, or any other related inquiries).
Conditions to vote:
All organizations that are member of LACNIC by October 14th. 2005 at 5:00 p.m. Uruguayan time, are up to date with their membership dues, and do not have any preceding debt with LACNIC may vote in this election. (The membership dues are considered the bills corresponding to the allocation and/or maintenance of IPv4 and/or IPv6 blocks).
According to the bylaws, LACNIC members are entitled to differential votes depending on the category and the level to which they belong. Therefore, each vote will be pondered based on this criterion. The categories are the following:
Active A members are entitled to 1 to 5 votes, depending on the address space they administer:
- Level 1: administer IPv6 blocks of any size or IPv4 blocks equivalent to a /19 or smaller: 1 vote
- Level 2: administer IPv4 blocks equivalent or greater than a /19 and smaller than a /16: 2 votes
- Level 3: administer IPv4 blocks equivalent or greater than a /16 and smaller than a /14: 3 votes
- Level 4: administer IPv4 blocks equivalent or greater than a /14 and smaller than a /11: 4 votes
- Level 5: administer IPv4 blocks equivalent or greater than a /11: 5 votes
Active B members: 1 vote
Active Founding members: 1 vote
The number of votes is not cumulative in case that the member falls into more than one category.
Announcement of the elected candidates:
Starting on the closing date of the voting period, the Electoral Commission has a maximum of 10 days to announce the outcome of the election.
The elected candidates will occupy their seats on January 1st. 2006.
Further details on LACNIC´s elections are available at:
http://lacnic.net/en/sobre-lacnic/elecciones/index.html
Information about LACNIC´s Board of Directors:
http://lacnic.net/en/sobre-lacnic/directorio.html
