Alan Greenberg, ALAC Liaison to the GNSO and At-Large member from the North-American Regional At-Large Organization (NARALO), composed an initial draft of this Statement [PDF, 408 KB] after discussion of the topic within At-Large.
On 11 July 2012, this Statement was posted on the At-Large Inter-Registrar Transfer Policy Part C Policy Development Process Initial Report Workspace.
On that same day, Olivier Crépin-Leblond, Chair of the ALAC, requested ICANN Policy Staff in support of ALAC to send a call for comments on the draft Statement to all At-Large members via the ALAC-Announce Mailing List.
On 18 July 2012, the Chair of the ALAC requested that Staff open a five-day ALAC ratification on the Statement.
On 25 July 2012, Staff confirmed that the online vote resulted in the ALAC endorsing the Statement with 14 votes in favor, 0 votes against, and 0 abstentions. You may review the result independently under:
https://www.bigpulse.com/pollresults?code=2528HncrndYzcUXxBXIkZNsz
The Chair then requested that the Statement be transmitted to the Public Comment process, copying the ICANN Staff member responsible for this Public Comment topic.