Alan Greenberg, ALAC member from the North-American Regional At-Large Organization (NARALO) and ALAC Liaison to the GNSO, composed an initial draft of this Statement [PDF, 419 KB] after discussion of the topic within At-Large and on the Mailing Lists.
On 27 November 2012, this Statement was posted on the At-Large Expired Registration Recovery Policy 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 30 November 2012, a version incorporating the comments received was posted and the Chair of the ALAC requested that Staff open a five-day ALAC ratification on the Statement.
On 7 December 2012, Staff confirmed that the online vote resulted in the ALAC endorsing the Statement with 14 votes in favor, 0 votes against, and 0 abstention. You may review the result independently under: https://www.bigpulse.com/pollresults?code=2801Kfsij5gdHsCkWDGmS56F
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.