Statement of the ALAC on Academia Representation on the NomCom

[ICANN At-Large Staff <staff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear all,

The At-Large staff has the honor of transmitting to you, on behalf of the 
At-Large Advisory Committee (ALAC), the Statement of the ALAC on Academia 
Representation on the NomCom.

The ALAC ratification vote on this Statement will start imminently -- on 
ICANN's next business day.  We will inform the Board of the results of this 
vote.

Christopher Wilkinson, a member of an At-Large Structure ( ALS) in the European 
Regional At-Large Organization (EURALO), composed a first draft of this 
statement, which he shared with the EURALO community and later with the wider 
At-Large community.

With the support from several At-Large members, a wiki 
workspace<https://community.icann.org/x/lYLu> containing this statement was 
created.  The At-Large staff sent out a call for comments from the At-Large 
community, to be submitted via this workspace, on 20 May 2011.

Comments were received not only on the workspace but also during the ALAC and 
ALAC Executive Committee monthly calls held on 24 May 2011.

On 28 May 2011, Olivier Crépin-Leblond, Chair of the ALAC, (a) wrote a second 
draft of this statement, attached here, incorporating the received comments, 
and (b) requested that the At-Large staff begin a five day ALAC ratification 
vote on this statement on the next business day.

With this same e-mail, this ALAC Statement is being transmitted to the ICANN 
Board Secretary and Amy Stathos, the ICANN staff member responsible for this 
public comment topic.

Regards,
Heidi Ullrich, Seth Greene, Matt Ashtiani, Gisella Gruber-White, and Marilyn 
Vernon
ICANN At-Large Staff

email: staff[at]atlarge.icann.org
website: www.atlarge.icann.org

Attachment: AL-ALAC-ST-0511-5 ALAC Statement on Academia Representation on NomCom - EN.docx
Description: AL-ALAC-ST-0511-5 ALAC Statement on Academia Representation on NomCom - EN.docx