Edmon Chung, At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) IDN liaison, originally composed this statement.
A wiki workspace on the Statement of the ALAC Draft Proposal for the Study of Issues Related to the Delegation of IDN Variant TLDs was posted on 30 March 2011. On that same day, a call for comments was sent to the ALAC-Announce and regional At-Large mailing lists.
After incorporating comments received, a second version (the present document) was created on 3 April 2011.
On 31 March 2011, Olivier Crépin-Leblond, Chairman of the ALAC, requested the At-Large Staff to begin a five day ALAC vote on this statement starting 4 April 2011.
On 4 April 2011, the enclosed statement was submitted to the public comment for this issue, the relevant staff person, and the Board Secretary, with a note saying that the document was currently undergoing ALAC ratification.
On 9 April 2011, At-Large Staff confirmed that the online vote resulted in the ALAC endorsing the Statement with 10 votes in favor, 0 votes against, and 0 abstentions. You may review the result independently under: https://www.bigpulse.com/pollresults?code=24052NiUqFEsYR4kL4fddjCS