[council] Question re. ICANN Annual Report

["Gomes, Chuck" <cgomes@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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