[council] Question re. ICANN Annual Report

[Denise Michel]

See my response below**

Regards,
Denise

Denise Michel
Vice President, Policy Development
ICANN   www.icann.org
denise.michel at icann.org


Gomes, Chuck wrote:
> The second sentence of the 5th paragraph of Paul Twomey's message in
> ICANN's Annual Report (p.9) says, "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)."  
>  
> Can anyone tell what is meant by a gTLD program office?  Has the GNSO
> been working with staff in this regard?
**This refers to the policy work the GNSO is doing and how GNSO staff is
working with Operations staff to help ensure the necessary policy
guidance is given for successful implementation.  The annual report
envisions in the future dedicated staff focused on implementation of the 
GNSO's
gTLD-related policies ("gTLD program office").

>  
> Also, on page 25 in the Policy Support section, the 4th paragraph starts
> out with this sentence: "To consider pre-registration of IDN gTLD labels
> in the first round for new TLDs, the GNSO recently launched an IDN
> Working Group . . ."  Is this a misstatement or is it true that the IDN
> working group was launched "to consider pre-registration of IDN gTLD
> labels"?
**This was an effort to capture (at the time the report was drafted) the
GNSO's discussions and activities relating to gTLDs and IDNs.  This is
not intended to change the GNSO's IDN Working Group's charter
and workplan.

>  
> Chuck
>