Dear All, The Chair of the ALAC, Olivier Crépin-Leblond, has requested the Staff to start a five-day ALAC vote on the ALAC Statement on the Proposed Framework for the FY12 Operating Plan and Budget. Members of the ALAC received an email with their voting credentials a couple of minutes ago. The question to be put will be the following: ***** Do you support the ratification of the ALAC Statement on the Proposed Framework for the FY12 Operating Plan and Budget for communication to the relevant Public Comment process? With possible answers: Yes No Abstain ***** You can review the ALAC Statement on the Proposed Framework for the FY12 Operating Plan and Budget at: https://community.icann.org/x/zQe3 The Vote will remain open until Friday 08 April 2011, 23:59 UTC. After you have submitted your vote online, you should receive an email confirmation. Please inform staff@atlarge.icann.org<mailto: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. There is a link entitled "See who voted" 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 Thank you. Regards, Heidi Ullrich, Seth Greene, Gisella Gruber-White, Marilyn Vernon ICANN At-Large Staff