Cheryl Langdon-Orr, At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) member from APRALO and Vice Chair of the ALAC Executive Committee, originally composed this Statement [143 KB].
On 27 September 2011, a first version of the ALAC Statement on Revisions to Conflicts of Interest Policy and Bylaws to Allow Board to Consider Compensation for Director Services was posted on the At-Large Workspace: https://community.icann.org/x/tQCpAQ. On the same day, a call for comments was sent to the ALAC-Announce mailing list.
A second version (the present document) was created after taking into account comments received.
On 3 October 2011, Olivier Crépin-Leblond, Chairman of the ALAC, requested the At-Large Staff to begin a five-day ALAC vote starting 3 October 2011 and closing 7 October 2011.
On 4 October 2011, At-Large Staff confirmed that the vote had reached quorum and passed with ten votes in favor, zero votes against, and zero abstentions. On the same day, the Statement was submitted to the Public Comment forum for the Revisions to Conflicts of Interest Policy and Bylaws to Allow Board to Consider Compensation for Director Services.
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On the same day, this ALAC Statement was transmitted to the public comment process, with a copy to the ICANN staff member responsible for thispublic comment topic, with a note saying that the document was currently undergoing ALAC ratification, with the vote having already achieved quorum.