Dear Diane, The At-Large staff has the honour to transmit to you the ALAC Statement on New gTLD Applicant Guidebook Version 4 and Explanatory Memorandum as an Advice to the ICANN Board on behalf of the ALAC. Thank you for distributing it to the Board for consideration. On August 13th, the At-Large Staff transmitted the Draft Statement to Karen Lentz, the ICANN staff person responsible for the public consultation process on Draft Applicant Guidebook Version 4 with a note saying that the document was currently undergoing ALAC ratification. On August 24th, the Chair of the At-Large Advisory Committee, Cheryl Langdon-Orr, asked the Staff of At-Large to start a five-day online ALAC vote on the draft statement. The online vote ended on August 28th and resulted in the ALAC endorsing the statement with 12-0 votes. Sebastien Bachollet, who informed the ALAC that he would be on leave during the voting period will be recorded as an abstention. You may review the result independently under: https://www.bigpulse.com/pollresults?code=1277B7TXgqRJq4MzbLkXi96z The ALAC welcomes any comments the Board may wish to make by reply. -- 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