[council] WG VI report

[Stéphane Van Gelder <stephane.vangelder@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello all.

Although we have now adopted a new process which does not require Council 
liaisons to send in a report on the WG or DT they are assigned to because that 
is now being covered by the action items list, I forgot this and started to 
work on the VI WG report anyway...

I will therefore send it, as its done, but will no longer send separate reports 
after this one.

Here it is then. Thanks.

Stéphane



Vertical Integration Policy Development Process (VI PDP) - Chairs Roberto 
Gaetano and Mikey O'Connor - Council Liaison - Stéphane van Gelder – Sept 7, 
2010

The working group has produced an interim report. That report is published 
(please see VI PDP WG wiki at 
https://st.icann.org/vert-integration-pdp/index.cgi?vertical_integration_pdp).

There has been a lull in the WG activity lately, partly due to the summer 
vacation period, and partly because the upcoming Board retreat at the end of 
September may mean new directions for the WG to work in, or may even make the 
WG's existence moot.

The WG is currently meeting once a week by teleconference. The current topic of 
discussion is an attempt to identify the harms that might result from applying 
the various scenarios put forward in the preliminary report. To this end, the 
WG is conducting broad research and constructing a list of possible harms (from 
both VI and Vertical Separation).