Dear Liz, The At-Large staff has the honour to transmit to you the ALAC Statement on the Initial WHOIS Service Requirements Reports on behalf of the At-Large Advisory Committee. The attached statement on Initial WHOIS Service Requirements Report was originally drafted by Patrick Vande Walle, member of the At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) and sent to the members of the At-Large Whois working group for review on April 5th 2010. The first revision of the statement (the attached document) was published by Patrick Vande Walle on April 23rd and discussed during the monthly conference call of the ALAC on April 27th. Under the following URL you can find a comparison of the two documents: <https://st.icann.org/gnso-liaison/index.cgi?action=revision_compare&page_nam... On April 29th, the Chair of the ALAC asked the Staff to start a five-day online vote on the ALAC Statement on Initial WHOIS Service Requirements Report. The online vote resulted in the ALAC endorsing the statement with 14-0. You may review the result independently under: https://www.bigpulse.com/pollresults?code=2AzcTXhB8MGuGtJCA9Ru -- 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