An initial draft of this Statement [PDF, 555 KB] was composed by Holly Raiche, ALAC member from the Asian, Australasian and Pacific Islands Regional At-Large Organization (APRALO) after discussion of the topic within At-Large and on the Mailing Lists.
On 6 March 2013, this Statement was posted on the At-Large Revised New gTLD Registry Agreement Including Additional Public Interest Commitments Specification Workspace.
On that same day, Olivier Crépin-Leblond, the Chair of the ALAC, asked that a call for comments on the draft Statement be sent to At-Large members via the ALAC Announce Mailing List.
On 13 March 2013, a version incorporating the comments received was posted on the aforementioned Workspace.
On 18 March 2013, the Chair requested that Staff open a five-day ALAC ratification vote on the revised Statement.
On 25 March 2013, the online vote resulted in the ALAC endorsing the statement with 10 votes in favor, 0 abstentions, and 0 votes against. You may review the result independently under: https://www.bigpulse.com/pollresults?code=2982kmKHzundDM7NVgsgNHez
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.