Summary

  • LACNIC's 26 October election record confirms five candidates for three Board seats: Gabriel Adonaylo, Carmen Denis and Rafael Antonio Ibarra Fernández are sitting directors; Jorge Mario Valencia Mesa and Norberto Enrique Faria Rodriguez are the other contenders.
  • The bylaws allow at most two directors with citizenship of one country. Two Brazilian directors already hold terms beyond 2026, so the election call rules out Brazilian candidates. The dated ballot runs 3–10 November.

Three seats are opening at LACNIC's board table. The three people occupying them have put their names forward again. Two others have asked members to rearrange the chairs. The public election record marked five candidacies confirmed on 26 October for terms running from January 2027 through December 2029.

The incumbent trio is Gabriel Adonaylo of Argentina, Carmen Denis of Mexico and Rafael Antonio Ibarra Fernández of El Salvador. Their current terms end in December, according to LACNIC's Board list. Jorge Mario Valencia Mesa of Colombia and Norberto Enrique Faria Rodriguez of Venezuela complete the slate. Five countries, five names, three positions. Adonaylo is the current treasurer, Denis the deputy secretary and Ibarra a director. Valencia Mesa describes public-sector IPv6 work in Colombia; Faria Rodriguez runs NAP VE, a Venezuelan interconnection initiative. The slate pits existing Board experience against two different operating backgrounds.

One large country has no candidate. The election call says Brazilian candidacies are ineligible this year. Article 24.1.1 of LACNIC's bylaws limits the Board to two directors who are citizens of the same country or territory; it counts every citizenship a candidate holds. Evandro Varonil and Wardner Maia occupy the two Brazilian places through 2027 and 2028. The rule does its work before any member opens a ballot. It does not tell the voter which of the five eligible people to choose.

The Board has nine voting directors, so these three posts are a third of it. Article 26 of the bylaws gives that Board the power to administer LACNIC, decide member admission and penalties, and ratify policies for Internet resource management and assignment. A single new director would not own those decisions, but the election will decide whether the people casting those Board votes come from the incumbent trio or include operators from Colombian public infrastructure and Venezuelan interconnection.

The dated public calendar puts voting from 3 to 10 November. Bylaw Article 25 elects the highest vote-getters for the three positions, with a runoff for a tie. Because only two challengers are on the slate, at least one current director will remain in these three seats. The result will say which one, or whether all three return.

Sources: official election record, current Board, bylaws, Article 24.1.1, election calendar.