<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear Chick<div>I acknowledge receipt of your message below, which has been shared with the Board.</div><div>Please convey my thanks to the Working Group, and to the Council for its attention to this request.</div><div><br></div><div>my regards</div><div><br><div>
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<br><div><div>On Oct 8, 2010, at 6:21 AM, Gomes, Chuck wrote:to the </div><blockquote type="cite">
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<!-- Converted from text/rtf format --><p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en">Mr. Peter Dengate-Thrush<br>
Chair - ICANN Board</span></p><p dir="LTR"><span lang="en">Re: Vertical Integration Recommendations for the New gTLD Program</span></p><p dir="LTR"><span lang="en">Dear Peter,</span></p><p dir="LTR"><span lang="en">This is in response to Section 2.11 (Vertical Integration) of the 25 September 2010 Adopted Board Resolutions (</span><span lang="en-us"></span><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/resolutions-25sep10-en.htm"><span lang="en-us"><u></u></span><u><span lang="en"><font color="#0000FF">http://www.icann.org/en/minutes/resolutions-25sep10-en.htm</font></span></u><span lang="en-us"></span></a><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en">) in which the ICANN Board inquired whether the GNSO has achieved a consensus position on the topic of vertical integration with regard to New gTLDs.</span></p><p dir="LTR"><span lang="en">Please be advised that the GNSO Council was notified by the Vertical Integration PDP Working Group (VI WG) that it was unable to reach a consensus position on the issue of vertical integration. Although the WG has been diligently evaluating this issue for several months, it is unable to deliver recommendations that are supported by a consensus of its members by the ICANN Board’s deadline of 8 October 2010.</span></p><p dir="LTR"><span lang="en">Sincerely,</span></p><p dir="LTR"><span lang="en">Chuck Gomes<br>
Chair<br>
GNSO Council</span></p><div><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>
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