The attached document [PDF, 483 KB] was endorsed by the At-Large Advisory Committee on August 29th.
On August 24th, the Chair of the At-Large Advisory Committee, Cheryl Langdon-Orr, asked the Staff of At-Large to start a five-day online ALAC vote on the draft statement on the Initial Report on Vertical Integration Between Registrars and Registries.
The online vote ended on August 28th and resulted in the ALAC endorsing the statement with 12-0 votes. Sebastien Bachollet informed the ALAC that he would be on leave during the voting period and will be recorded as an abstention.
You may review the result independently under:
https://www.bigpulse.com/pollresults?code=1277B7TXgqRJq4MzbLkXi96z
On August 13th, the At-Large Staff transmitted the Draft Statement to Margie Milam, the ICANN staff person responsible for the public consultation process on Initial Report on Vertical Integration Between Registrars and Registries with a note saying that the document was currently undergoing ALAC ratification. On September 10th, the Statement was submitted to the ICANN Board of Directors.