Councillors, Please find below my status report on the VI WG for the upcoming GNSO Council teleconference. Stéphane Vertical Integration Policy Development Process (VI PDP) - Chairs Roberto Gaetano and Mikey O'Connor - Council Liaison - Stéphane van Gelder – July 8, 2010 The working group met face-to-face several times in Brussels, during the 38th International ICANN meeting. A presentation on the group's progress so far was given by the 2 co-chairs during the GNSO Council Open meeting on Wednesday June 23rd. Based on the revised deadlines driven by the September Board retreat referenced in the Brussels meeting Board Resolutions as a "new gTLD retreat only", the WG has developed an extremely short-interval schedule. A process has been launched to summarize the major proposals, including 2 new proposals stemming from Brussels. The WG is discussing areas of possible consensus and also looking at possible exceptions such as Single Registrant Single User TLDs and other niche TLDs. Full consensus may be difficult to reach, but the group remains hopeful of reaching partial consensus.