Dear Kurt, The At-Large staff has the honour to transmit to you the Statement on Expression of Interest Proposal on behalf of the At-Large Advisory Committee. Patrick Vande Walle produced the original draft of this document and published it for community feedback on January 6th 2010. A first revision of this document was published by Patrick on January 17th and further updated on January 26th in accordance with feedback received on the first revision. The ALAC held a vote on the Statement during their monthly teleconference on January 26th, 2010. The result of said vote was that the ALAC decided to endorse the Statement and submit it to the relevant public consultation process with a 11-0 vote. As this is a formal Statement of an Advisory Committee to the Board, we provide it by copy hereby to the Secretary of ICANN for distribution to the Board with our compliments. The ALAC welcomes any comments the Board may wish to make by reply. -- Regards, Heidi Ullrich, Matthias Langenegger, Gisella Gruber-White, Marilyn Vernon, Kristina Nordström ICANN At-Large Staff email: staff[at]atlarge.icann.org website: www.atlarge.icann.org