Milton, ALAC voted to support the consumer's constituency during a meeting on April 29, 2009. See https://st.icann.org/alac/index.cgi?28_april_2009_summary_minutes_en. It was a consensus vote. (it was also the subject of clarification and change of minutes during ALAC's meeting of August 12.) There is no vote being orchestrated, ALAC's support for the new constituency was agreed some time ago. There has been interest by more than two ALAC members in the creation of a consumer's constituency. On various calls, other ALAC's meetings, email, Cheryl has made her connection to the Australian Consumers Consumer Action Network very clear. Any conflict of interest was made known to ALAC/At Large. That ACCAN would be one of the founding members of any consumer's constituency was made known to ALAC/At Large from the outset. I believe Holly Raiche has been the main contact for ACCAN. Unfortunately your post is full of errors, mainly errors about people. The title, given the personal attacks in the text is particularly offensive. Adam