[council] Our Prague meeting with the GAC

[Stéphane Van Gelder]

Councillors,

Over the past few days, Jeff, Glen and I have been working hard to deal with a last-minute request that came in from the GAC to move our planned Sunday session with them.

The GAC initially asked that we look at bringing the session forward to Saturday, but due to our own work constraints and the fact that this would not leave us sufficient time to adequately prepare for our interaction with the GAC through our weekend work sessions which, being open to the GNSO community, also mean we get great feedback from them, we did not want to pursue that option. Other dates were examined, including Monday and Thursday, but both these present a significant number of challenges.

As we were working to find a solution at our end, we learned that the GAC had simply elected to cancel our Sunday slot before an alternative had been agreed upon.

This slot is still listed on the public Prague agenda, but at this time we are told by the GAC that as far as they are concerned, it no longer exists.

We are still working to find alternatives and ensure our session with the GAC does happen. But at this time I am afraid that we do not have a session with the GAC scheduled for Prague. 

I have personally contacted Heather to urge that the Sunday GNSO slot be put back on the GAC's agenda, and that we continue to work together to try and find a solution that best fits both groups' requirements.

We will keep you posted, but I wanted to make sure you all had this information.

Thanks,

Stéphane Van Gelder
Directeur Général / General manager
INDOM Group NBT France
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