[council] Our Prague meeting with the GAC

[Stéphane Van Gelder <stephane.vangelder@xxxxxxxxx>]

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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