Hi Everyone, My apologises for the lateness in sending you all the agenda for today's call later at 21.00 UTC. I will be driving the call tonite, whilst Michael (Flemming) has a well earned break. Michael will be monitoring the chat and taking all the questions you may have or previously prepared for the open discussion for the last 30 minutes. I actively encourage as many of you as possible to attend, and for those of you that are observers certainly consider changing your status to a participant. Your comments from experiences gained during Round 1,with solutions and suggestions for Round 2 are always very welcome. The topic tonite is on Vertical Separation and Vertical Integration. It would be especially good to see and get comments and updates from those that were on the Vertical Integration WG , back in 2010-2011 with Jeff, Avri and myself and numerous others. Agenda First 30 minutes : 1: Introductions, SOI Updates 2: Meetings Times , o/s Topics ( pre Jo'Burg) 3: VI Summary & PDP Status 4: Origins of Vertical Separation 5: Status Quo in 2017 6: Potential Concerns and Benefits of VI 7: Journey to the Current Status 8: Registry Code of Conduct & Exemptions Second 30 mins 9: Open discussion highlighting actual Registry, Registrar examples, experiences of VS and VI. Use and mitigation via Spec 9, Spec 13. Please note that we intend to cover Specifications 9 & 13 re .brands in much more depth next week at the same time. Regards, Phil Phil Buckingham Co-Chair, WT2.