Dear All, The Chair of the ALAC, Olivier Crépin-Leblond, asked the Staff to start a five-day ALAC vote on the two ALS applications ready for approval. An email with background information on the applications was sent to the ALAC-internal list earlier today. Members of the ALAC received an email with their voting credentials a couple of minutes ago. After you have submitted your vote online, you should receive an email confirmation. Please inform staff@atlarge.icann.org if you do not receive a confirmation so that we can check whether your vote has been recorded. Also, if you are experiencing technical problems and are unable to vote online, you can send us an email. As long as you send us your votes before the close of the vote, we can add them as paper ballot votes. The question to be put will be the following: ***** Should the regional advice from AFRALO for applicant (139) Binary Egypt be rejected? The regional advice was to REJECT the application. With possible answers: ACCEPT the regional advice and do NOT accredit this ALS REJECT the regional advice and accredit this ALS Abstain ***** Should the regional advice from APRALO for applicant (146) Cook Islands Internet Action Group be rejected? The regional advice was to ACCEPT the application. With possible answers: ACCEPT the regional advice and accredit this ALS REJECT regional advice and do NOT accredit this ALS Abstain ***** The Vote will remain open until Tuesday, 22 February at 2359 UTC. Please note that the votes are on separate pages and not linked to each other. This allows you to submit your votes at different times. There is a link entitled ³See who voted² at the bottom of the voting page, which allows you to see who has voted so far. All currently open ALAC votes are linked to a single menu page under: https://www.bigpulse.com/m6962 The results of closed ALAC votes may be reviewed under: https://www.bigpulse.com/m7097 -- Regards, Heidi Ullrich, Matthias Langenegger, Seth Greene, Gisella Gruber-White, Marilyn Vernon, Kristina Nordström ICANN At-Large Staff email: staff[at]atlarge.icann.org website: www.atlarge.icann.org