Dear Rob, The At-Large staff has the honour to transmit to you the ALAC Statement on the Draft Process for Recognition of New GNSO Constituencies on behalf of the At-Large Advisory Committee. A first version of the attached Statement was drafted by Alan Greenberg, ALAC liaison to the Council of the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO), and published for comments on 18 February 2011. Comments on the initial draft were received from Marc Rotenberg and Jean-Jacques Subrenat who are both members of the ALAC. On 28 February 2011, Alan Greenberg published the first revision of the statement (the attached document), which incorporates comments received on the initial draft. On the same day, the Chair of the ALAC, Olivier Crépin-Leblond, asked the Staff to start a five-day online vote on the document. The vote resulted in the ALAC endorsing the resolution with 12-0 votes and one abstention. You may review the result independently under: https://www.bigpulse.com/pollresults?code=1598Lkhc2ETjCP6kKhXF5V48 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, Seth Greene, Gisella Gruber-White, Marilyn Vernon, Kristina Nordström ICANN At-Large Staff email: staff[at]atlarge.icann.org website: www.atlarge.icann.org