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  1. The nomination period for ALAC Liaison and Officer positions ended on 19 October 2009, a part of the larger set of elections and appointments which have taken place between the Sydney and Seoul ICANN meetings (please see http://www.atlarge.icann.org/elections/2009). For the following positions, only one candidate
  2. On October 1st, 2009 the ALAC Chair Cheryl Langdon-Orr transmitted a letter to the Chairman of the ICANN Board of Directors [PDF, 84K], Peter Dengate-Thrush requesting ICANN to make a Non -lawyer's Guide to the RAA available for community use.
  3. Vanda Scartezini of Brazil has been elected the ALAC Board Liaison for 2009/2010 in a very close five-candidate contest which concluded on 30th September 2009. Ms. Scartezini will take up her position at the close of the ICANN Board Meeting in Seoul, South Korea and serve until the close of the third ICANN Meeting
  4. Each year, five of the 15 seats of the At-Large Advisory Committee ("ALAC") are up for election, one in each of the five ICANN Geographic Regions. The electors are the authorised representatives of the members of the At-Large community in each of those regions, who are themselves federated into Regional At-Large
  5. On August 25th 2009 the ALAC tasked the ALAC-SSAC Liaison Patrick Vande Walle to submit a reply the Public Consultation on the Security & Stability Advisory Committee Retreat (http://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/public-comment-200909.html#ssac-retreat) on behalf of the ALAC. Patrick Vande Walle submitted
  6. The following list with NomCom Delegates for 2010 was transmitted to the current and incoming NomCom Chairs Tricia Drakes and Wolfgang Kleinwächter today: NomCom Delegate from Africa: Yaovi Atohoun (Benin) NomCom Delegate from Asia, Australiasia and the Pacific Islands: Hong Xue (China) NomCom Delegate from
  7. The ALAC ratified the attached ALAC Advisory on ICANN Meeting Dates 2011 - 2013 [PDP, 138K] on 2nd September. The document was initially drafted by ALAC member Adam Peake with contents as requested by members of the ALAC and the Working Group on the Future Structure of ICANN, as a reply to the public consultation
  8. The At-Large community is requested to review the At-Large Review Implementation Outline. Comments are being taken until 30th September 2009 at https://st.icann.org/alac-docs/index.cgi?at_large_review_implementation_outline_al_alac_st_0909_1. At the public board meeting on 26th June 2009 (see
  9. In its meeting of 27th August 2009, the ICANN Board of Directors unanimously resolved as follows: 'IT IS RESOLVED THAT the recommendation of the BRWG to add one voting director appointed from the At-Large Community to the ICANN Board of Directors, and removing the present ALAC Liaison to the Board, is approved in
  10. Each year between the summer ICANN meeting and the ICANN AGM in the Autumn, the At-Large community elects its leaders for the forthcoming year, as well as appointing NomCom voting delegates. This process has an impact on the whole ICANN community. This year, between August and the beginning of October, the
  11. The ALAC ratified the attached ALAC Statement on Expense Analysis on 27th July. The document [PDF, 125K] was drafted by the At-Large staff with contents as requested by the At-Large Executive Committee, as a reply to the public consultation on the same subject to be found at:
  12. The ALAC ratified the attached Statement on the Public Consultations on Proposals for Systematization of Organizational Review Processes, and Bylaw Amendment Related to Organisational Review Cycle. The document [PDF, 109K] was drafted by the At-Large staff with contents as requested by the At-Large Executive
  13. The ALAC ratified the attached ALAC Advisory on the Second Interim Report of the Board Review Working Group on August 6th. The document [PDF, 107K] was drafted by the Staff of ICANN, with the content outlined by the Chair of the ALAC and as taken from a subsequent conversation with Vice?Chair Vanda Scartezini
  14. As discussed by the ALAC and regional leaders in Sydney, work is progressing on a detailed position description for ALAC members and Liaisons. This initiative of the the ALAC is intended to help ensure active participation of ALAC members, as greater clarity regarding the time and other obligations of members and
  15. The ALAC ratified the attached Statement [PDF, 148K] on the Third revision of the Draft Implementation Plan for the IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process 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