The attached Joint Statement of the GAC and the ALAC [PDF, 126 KB] was drafted in response to discussions held at the Singapore ICANN conference between the Government Advisory Committee (GAC) and the At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) during a Joint meeting on 19 June 2011. The meeting's agenda centered mainly on support for needy applicants in the new gTLD process, Following that meeting, a small working party of At-Large and GAC individual members studied the possibility of drafting a joint GAC-ALAC Statement. The Team met on several occasions during the ICANN meeting and co-drafted a statement which was then reviewed by the ALAC and the GAC.
On 11 July 2011, the text was circulated by Evan Leibovitch (Vice-Chair of the ALAC and member of the JAS WG drafting team) on the ALAC Internal list and matters discussed in the mid-month ALAC Executive Committee conference call, the July 2011 ALAC call and the July 2011 end of month ALAC Executive Committee conference call.
On 29 July 29 2011, the GAC agreed to a revised version of the joint statement.
On 3 August 2011, Olivier Crépin-Leblond, requested the At-Large Staff to post the revised joint statement on a wiki web space, announce it and begin a three day (72 hours) express ALAC vote on this statement, with the premise that as soon as the ALAC vote reached quorum, the statement would be sent to the Board by the GAC and to the relevant Public Comment space on the ICANN Web site, by the ALAC. This rush was required by the very tight schedules that the JAS WG is operating under.
The vote resulted in the ALAC endorsing the resolution with 12-0 votes and 0 abstentions. You may review the result independently under: http://www.bigpulse.com/pollresults?code=1964HJn7FEbTx9tRqKCUq4h6.