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?

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"?

Chuck