Dear Tony, Thank you very much for your draft. I agree with the "Key Principles Developed by the VI Working Group$B!I(B with one reserve: that is, the point 3 should be explored in another PDP, not in the VI Working group. 3. The concept of Single Registrant, Single User TLDs should be explored further. This issue, and more generally, what we call "proprietary TLD" issue is a really big theme which might change the Internet dramatically, so that ICANN should make a separate policy decision. I really hate this major issue treated behind another policy issue. If this issue is treated behind another policy issue further, I have to say that style of discussion a "material breach of process". In the way of seeking a short term solution of VI-issue, that is, a solution for the next New gTLD round, SRSU issue should be put aside, because SRSU is out of scope of the current New gTLD process, which we(JPNIC) pointed out in http://forum.icann.org/lists/4gtld-guide/msg00042.html. Here I would like to add that putting aside the SRSU issue will be very beneficial for all of us, because the ongoing VI discussion will become simpler and we can expect less delay for the New gTLD process. (I sometimes suspect someone is intentionally bringing the SRSU issue in order to delay the current New gTLD process.) For a long term solution, the VI-WG has to wait until another PDP gives a clear decision for the SRSU issue. I hope you will take my point and incorporate in our comment. Regards, Masa.

From: "Anthony Harris" <harris@cabase.org.ar> Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 14:49:39 -0300

Dear colleagues,

During our Constituency call on Tuesday, it was resolved that I would prepare a draft text for submitting our comments on the Vertical Integration Report that was recently submitted to ICANN by the VI Working Group. You can view the report using this link:

http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-2-23jul10-en.htm

If anyone has comments, objections, additions, etc. for the attached draft, please respond no later than close of business day August 9th.

Regards

Tony Harris

---- (Mr.) NaoMASA Maruyama Japan Network Information Center(JPNIC)