<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><div>Dear All, </div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-family: calibri, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">This is to let you know that the <a href="bi-280174-ElojJ2@bigpulse.com">ALAC Statement in response to the Public Comment on the Next-Generation gTLD Registration Directory Services to Replace WHOIS Preliminary Issue Report</a> is now final. Alan Greenberg, Chair of the ALAC, has asked that the 15 ALAC members to ratify this final Statement. Once ratified, the Statement will be submitted to the ICANN Public Comment as a formal ALAC Advice. </div><div style="font-family: calibri, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: calibri, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">To read the final Statement, please visit: <a href="https://community.icann.org/x/1IJCAw">https://community.icann.org/x/1IJCAw</a>. </div><div style="font-family: calibri, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: calibri, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Please note that the ALAC ratification vote will start on <b><u>01 September 2015 12:59 UTC</u></b> and end on <b><u>05 September 2015 23:59 UTC</u></b>. </div></div><div style="font-family: calibri, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: calibri, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><div><div style="font-size: 16px;"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Regards,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Heidi Ullrich, Silvia Vivanco, Ariel Liang, Gisella Gruber, Nathalie Peregrine and Terri Agnew</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">ICANN Policy Staff in support of ALAC</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">E-mail: <a href="mailto:staff@atlarge.icann.org">staff@atlarge.icann.org</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/icannatlarge">www.facebook.com/icann</a><a href="https://www.facebook.com/icannatlarge">atlarge</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/ICANNAtLarge">@</a><a href="https://twitter.com/ICANNAtLarge">ICANNAtLarge</a></div></div></font></div></div></div></body></html>