Dear ALAC members, by now, you should have received your ballots, all 4 of them, to vote on each of the Applications for the ".HEALTH" string. BEFORE VOTING, I invite you to review all of the information at hand for each of these applications. The Conference Call we had today discussed the details of the context in which those objections are being considered and explained where all of the information was. I ENCOURAGE EVERYONE TO CONSULT THE RECORDING OF THIS CALL BEFORE GOING ANY FURTHER. This is linked from the call Agenda: https://community.icann.org/x/8JNwAg On this agenda page, you will also find the following: - links to a summary of RALO advice for EACH of the .HEALTH applications (Section 3: read all of the comments on each of the WIKI sub-pages, for each application because this is where Dev has posted the correspondence received) 1. Applicant "DotHealth, LLC" for the ".HEALTH" string <https://community.icann.org/x/t4xwAg> 2. Applicant ""Goose Fest, LLC" for the ".HEALTH" string <https://community.icann.org/x/v4xwAg> 3. Applicant "dot Health Limited" for the ".HEALTH" string <https://community.icann.org/x/xYxwAg> 4. Applicant "Afilias Limited" for the ".HEALTH" string <https://community.icann.org/x/y4xwAg> - a review of the replies received by RALOs who had the most discussion about the matter (Section 4) - A review of the PICs - Public Interest Commitment; of the GAC early Warnings; of the applications etc. - a link to the At-Large New gTLD Review Group mailing list archive. This will allow you to be up to date with all correspondence received from the applicants, as well as other organisations supporting or opposing the objections. This makes for an interesting reading. Please look for the "View by Date" for February and March 2013. It is worth noting that ALL CORRESPONDENCE is on each one of the WIKI pages where Dev has posted them. Before voting, PLEASE READ ALL OF THIS ADVICE. Take a *couple of hours* this week-end to make up your mind. If in doubt, ask your colleagues on the ALAC list. And I repeat: please listen to the call recording, if you have missed the call. Several very important questions were answered. Also have a look at the Chat record. Staff have submitted a priority request for the transcript of the call to be made available to us as soon as possible and will announce it as soon as it is received. Have a good week-end, Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond ALAC Chair