Dr. Olivier Crépin-Leblond, Chair of the At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) originally composed this statement based on archived documents of the ALAC as well as wide input from the five Regional At- Large Organizations (RALOs).
A wiki workspace on the NTIA NOI, including a time-line for comments, was announced on 17 March 2011 on an At-Large Group Skype Chat during the 40th ICANN Meeting held in San Francisco. Following a call for comments on the ALAC-Announce mailing list which was posted on 18 March 2011, Dr. Crépin- Leblond drafted a first version of the ALAC Statement on the NTIA NOI which was discussed during an ALAC Executive Committee call on 24 March. Following this call and the addition of significant community input a second version was created.
On 26 and 27 March 2011, further calls for comments were posted on the ALAC-Working list. Following the incorporation of these comments, a third version (the present document) was created.
On 28 March 2011, Dr. Crépin-Leblond requested the At-Large Staff to begin a three day ALAC vote on this statement. The vote resulted in the ALAC endorsing the resolution with 11 votes in favor, 0 against, and 1 abstention. You may review the result independently under: https://www.bigpulse.com/pollresults?code=16475IyeDvKcwf2bkiJNfCAa.
On 31 March 2011, the enclosed statement was submitted to Fiona M. Alexander, Associate Administrator, Office of International Affairs, National Telecommunications and Information Administration.