Let’s start with a date no later than which for both the ASM and for TLD with a maximum acceptable time frame being 180 calendar days from today.
So, in your world (whichever business that is, it appears to be Librarian) where you have signed off on the final version of a Journal Article that will be groundbreaking and controversial and now have absolutely no control over the publication date, and are awaiting the MHRA to inspect your facility before submitting an MAA, and having been harangued and brow beaten by a certain contingent of your shareholders for allegedly missing timelines, you’d now set a date for these before these incredible pieces of news can be PR’d? That’s laughable and completely irrational and illogical.
The ASM has to happen before the end of the year. There are several things that will be newsworthy and most likely paradigm shattering that are about to happen; they want to have those out before the ASM. Between the Journal Editor and the MHRA management will wait until they feel there’s no chance in hell these will occur before year’s end to announce the meeting. I will guarantee you they believe these events are close at hand and so will wait until they can announce them. To expect anything different than that is absurd.