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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=241120415-28012007>The second sentence
of the 5th paragraph of Paul Twomey's message in ICANN's Annual Report (p.9)
says, "<FONT face=HelveticaNeue size=1>GNSO and staff are working together for
the establishment and operation of a new generic top level domain (gTLD) program
office, to realise the work of the Whois Task Force, and to provide input in the
development of Internationalised Domain Names (IDNs).</FONT>"
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=241120415-28012007>Can anyone tell what
is meant by a gTLD program office? Has the GNSO been working with staff in
this regard?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=241120415-28012007></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=241120415-28012007>Also, on page 25 in
the Policy Support section, the 4th paragraph starts out with this
sentence: "<FONT face=HelveticaNeue size=1>To consider pre-registration of IDN
gTLD labels in the first round for new TLDs, the GNSO recently launched an IDN
Working Group . . .</FONT>" Is this a misstatement or is it true that the
IDN working group was launched "to consider pre-registration of IDN gTLD
labels"?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=241120415-28012007>Chuck</SPAN></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>