Dear Tina, The At-Large staff has the honour to transmit to you the Comment on the 3rd Revision of the Draft Implementation Plan for IDN ccTLDs on behalf of the At-Large Advisory Committee. It was originally drafted by the ALAC Liaison for IDN Issues, Sivasubramanian Muthusamy, and was then published for review by the wider community on June 30th, 2009. The original version of the statement may be viewed under: https://st.icann.org/alac-docs/index.cgi?action=revision_view;page_name=comm ent_on_draft_implementation_plan_for_idn_cctld_fast_track_process_revision_3 ;revision_id=20090710101436 Members of the At-Large community proposed some amendments to the original text, which the author incorporated into the final draft (a comparison between the original statement and the final version may be viewed under: https://st.icann.org/alac-docs/index.cgi?action=revision_view;page_name=comm ent_on_draft_implementation_plan_for_idn_cctld_fast_track_process_revision_3 ;revision_id=20090710101436 The Chair of the ALAC requested the Staff to begin a vote on the draft for a seven day period, starting on 19th July, 2009 and ending on 26th July. The results were announced on 27th July by the Staff, said result being that the Statement was endorsed by a vote of nine votes in favor, no votes against and two abstentions. The result may be verified under the following URL: https://www.bigpulse.com/pollresults?code=nQ3H6mYY67sTeq6JArKf 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