The following statement has been transmitted to the public consultation on the IRT Draft.
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We have been requested by the Chair of the At-Large Advisory Committee to transmit the input for the public consultation on the Draft IRT Report on behalf of the ALAC.
The attached statement was originally drafted by ALAC Member Patrick Vande Walle, as agreed during the April 26th 2009 meeting of the At-Large Advisory Committee. It was then published for review by the ALAC and the Regional Secretariats on 2nd May 2009. The original version statement may be viewed under: http://tinyurl.com/qlupnj. Due to the timelines built into the IRT process itself, it was understood that the statement would not be able to undergo the full, At-Large community-wide consultation as doing so would prevent the comments of the ALAC from being taken into account by the IRT as it completes work on its report.
Members of ALAC proposed some amendments (a comparison between the original statement and the final version may be viewed under: http://tinyurl.com/pxem8b).
The Chair of ALAC requested the Staff to begin a vote on the draft Statement for a five day period, which began on 7th May 2009 and closed on 12th May 2009.
The results were announced on 13th May by the Staff, said result being that the Statement was endorsed by a vote of 10-0-1.
Regards,
Nick Ashton-Hart, Heidi Ullrich, Matthias Langenegger, Gisella Gruber-White, Marie-Helene Bouchoms
ICANN At-Large Staff
email: staff@atlarge.icann.org