Dear All, The Chair of the ALAC, Olivier Crépin-Leblond, asked the Staff to start a five-day ALAC vote on the ALAC Statement on the Interim Report of the Internationalized Registration Data Working Group. Members of the ALAC received an email with their voting credentials a couple of minutes ago. After you have submitted your vote online, you should receive an email confirmation. Please inform 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. The question to be put will be the following: ***** Do you support the ratification of the ALAC Statement on the Interim Report of the Internationalized Registration Data Working Group for communication to the corresponding public comment process? With possible answers: Yes No Abstain ***** You can review the ALAC Statement on the Interim Report of the Internationalized Registration Data Working Group at: https://community.icann.org/display/alacdocs/ALAC+Statement+on+Interim+Repor t+of+the+Internationalized+Registration+Data+Working+Group The Vote will remain open until Friday, 11 March, 2011 at 2359 UTC. There is a link entitled ³See who voted² 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 -- 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