The attached document [PDF, 615 KB] was drafted by Mohamed El Bashir, member of the At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC), and transmitted to the corresponding public consultation process on 30 January 2011. A copy of the Statement was also sent to the ICANN Board of Directors on 7 February 2011.
The draft Statement was sent to the ALAC Working list for comments on 26 January. No additional comments were received by the members of the ALAC.
The Appendix to the Statement consists of the contributions from the five At-Large Regional At-Large Organizations (RALOs). The comments in the appendix reflect the views of the RALOs with their diverse historical, linguistic, cultural and geographic differences.
On 30 January 2011, the Chair of the ALAC asked the Staff to start a five-day online vote on the ALAC Statement on the Interim Report of the Geographic Regions Review Working Group beginning 31 January 2011.
The vote resulted in the ALAC endorsing the Statement with 13-0 votes and no abstentions. You may review the result independently under: https://www.bigpulse.com/pollresults?code=1549IurTvFzFztCDWPZQyGrW