Dear Diane, The At-Large staff has the honour to transmit to you the ALAC Statement on the proposed VeriSign Domain Name Exchange Service on behalf of the At-Large Advisory Committee for distribution to the Board with our compliments. The ALAC welcomes any comments the Board may wish to make by reply. Alan Greenberg, Vice-Chair of the At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC), drafted the attached ALAC Statement on the proposed VeriSign Domain Name Exchange Service. Details on this proposal can be found in VeriSign’s request form at http://www.icann.org/en/registries/rsep/verisign-dnex-05apr10-en.pdf. On April 14th 2010, Alan submitted the document to the public comment forum on registry services along with a note saying that an ALAC vote to officially endorse the Statement was scheduled to start shortly. On April 19th, the Chair of the ALAC asked the Staff to start a five-day online vote on the ALAC Statement on the proposed VeriSign Domain Name Exchange Service. Alan Greenberg sent a second note to the public comment forum on April 20th announcing that the vote had reached quorum and that the ALAC had endorsed the Statement. The online vote resulted in the ALAC endorsing the Statement with a 14-0 vote. You may review the result independently under: https://www.bigpulse.com/pollresults?code=A5KYRPm8FdwEz4hQaZZm -- 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