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Re: [council] Question re. ICANN Annual Report
Chuck and all:
If I may elaborate on Denise's email, "the establishment of new gTLD
program office" is shorthand for the implementation of new gTLD
policy currently being developed. After the policy development is
completed, the RFPs are written, application processes are fleshed
out, fees are calculated, pro forma agreements are posted,
independent panels are populated, and processes are in execution --
the program office will be left to "run" the TLD process on an
ongoing basis, it is the entity resulting from the close-out of the
New gTLD Project. Having said that, this does not imply the creation
a big ol' program office: the word 'program' connotes the on-going
nature of the entity (as opposed to 'project' which connotes an
effort with a foreseeable end). The allocation for the program office
will be part of the public ICANN operating planning and budgeting
discussion.
Regarding the second issue, I think there is universal understanding
that the working group was launched for reasons described by the
posting: http://www.gnso.icann.org/announcements/
announcement-18nov06.htm. The writing in the Annual Plan you describe
predates the working group document - it is still a question that may
be considered by the working group as a subset of the issues
described in the working group posting.
Hope this is helpful.
Kurt
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On Jan 28, 2007, at 7:14 AM, 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?
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
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