Dear Marco, The At-Large staff has the honour to transmit to you the ALAC Statement on Affirmation Reviews Requirements and Implementation Processes on behalf of the At-Large Advisory Committee. The Statement on the Affirmation Reviews Requirements and Implementation Processes was drafted by the Executive Committee of the At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC) and published for community review on January 21st, 2010. The document was further discussed during the monthly ALAC teleconference on January 26th. The Chair of the ALAC asked Staff to start a five-day online vote on the document on January 27th, which resulted in the ALAC endorsing the Statement with a 14-1 vote. You may review the result of the online vote independently under: https://www.bigpulse.com/pollresults?code=U7pLAWDerFWSGtC4xS2d 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