Dear Theresa, The At-Large staff has the honour to transmit to you the ALAC Statement on the Draft Strategic Plan 2010 - 2013 on behalf of the At-Large Advisory Committee. The Statement has already been submitted to the public consultation on the Draft ICANN Strategic Plan for 2010- 2013 on January 21st with a note that the document was still undergoing the internal ratification process. The ratification process which ended yesterday resulted in the ALAC unanimously endorsing the Statement with a 15-0 vote. You may review the result independently under: https://www.bigpulse.com/pollresults?code=uzKMLnhG6MNUNFLPgZRi. This document was originally drafted by Sébastien Bachollet, Vice-Chair of the At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) based on input received from the five At-Large regions (RALOs) and Vanda Scartezini, ALAC Liaison to the Board of ICANN. The RALOs discussed the Draft Strategic Plan during their monthly teleconferences and online and drafted individual regional comments in advance of the At-Large community call on the Strategic Plan held on January 15th 2010. These regional comments are linked to the online workspace on Strategic Planning ( https://st.icann.org/alac-docs/index.cgi?strategic_planning_2010_2013_worksp...). The draft Statement was made available for community review on January 18th, 2010. On January 21st, the Chair of the ALAC asked the Staff to start a five-day vote on the document. 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, Nick Ashton-Hart, Heidi Ullrich, Matthias Langenegger, Gisella Gruber-White ICANN At-Large Staff email: staff at atlarge.icann.org