Dear Diane, The At-Large staff has the honour to transmit to you the ALAC Statement on Report of Possible Process Options for Further Consideration of the ICM Application for the .XXX sTLD 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. The attached Statement constitutes the official response of the At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) on the recent public consultations on IDN Variants , IDN 3 Character, Chairs Draft Interim Paper for Policy on Introduction of IDN ccTLDs and the Proposed Implementation Plan for Synchronized IDN ccTLDs. The document was initially drafted by James Seng, member of the At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) and published on April 25th 2010. The first revision of the statement (the attached document) incorporates comments received on the initial draft from Hong Xue, member of the Asia-Australasia-Pacific Islands Regional At-Large Organization (APRALO). Under the following URL you find a comparison of the two documents: https://st.icann.org/idn-policy/index.cgi?action=revision_compare&page_name=... On April 29th, the Chair of the ALAC asked the Staff to start a five-day online vote on the combined ALAC Statement on IDN Issues. The online vote resulted in the ALAC endorsing the statement with 13-0 with one abstention. 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