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 Post-Expiration Domain Name Recovery Recommendations for ICANN Board Consideration. Members of the ALAC received an email with their voting credentials on Saturday, 10 September 2011. The question put to the ALAC was: ***** Question: Do you support the ratification of the <https://community.icann.org/download/attachments/24805489/AL-ALAC-ST-0811-2+...> <http://goo.gl/b7F4y> <https://community.icann.org/download/attachments/26771469/ALAC+Statement+on+...> Statement of the ALAC on the Post-Expiration Domain Name Recovery Recommendations for ICANN Board<https://community.icann.org/download/attachments/26771469/ALAC+Statement+on+...> for communication to the relevant Public Comment process? With possible answers: * Yes * No * Abstain ***** You can review the <https://community.icann.org/download/attachments/26771469/ALAC+Statement+on+...> Statement of the ALAC on the Post-Expiration Domain Name Recovery Recommendations for ICANN Board<https://community.icann.org/download/attachments/26771469/ALAC+Statement+on+...> here: <http://goo.gl/M1rLp> http://goo.gl/M1rLp<http://goo.gl/Tha2R>. The Vote will remain open until Friday, 16 September 2011, 20:00 UTC. After you have submitted your vote online, you should receive an email confirmation. Please inform <mailto:staff@atlarge.icann.org> A<mailto:staff@atlarge.icann.org>t-Large Staff<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. 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 Heidi Ullrich, Seth Greene, Matt Ashtiani, Gisella Gruber-White, Marilyn Vernon ICANN At-Large Staff email: staff@atlarge.icann.org website: www.atlarge.icann.org