International Olympic Committee has invited Sports Minister MS Gill for a meeting on the 18th of this month in Switzerland to discuss the contentious tenure limitation guidelines while insisting that the regulations should not be implemented till then. IOC's National Olympic Committee (NOC) Relations Director Pere Miro in his letter to Gill has also said that IOC member Randhir Singh and Husain Al-Musallam, Director General and Technical Director of the Olympic Council Asia (OCA) will also be present in the meeting. The IOC official also made it clear that the Sports Ministry should not implement the guidelines meant for the sports bosses in the country till then. The guidelines in question seek to limit the tenure of National Sports Federation (NSF) Presidents to 12 years, suggest that secretaries and treasurers cannot function more than eight years at a stretch, and advocates a 70-year retirement age for all executives. NSFs and the Indian Olympic Association are up in arms against the guidelines, which they feel is a breach of the Olympic Charter and an infringement on their autonomy. They also have the support of both IOC and OCA. The Sports Ministry cited laws in countries like Sri Lanka and Malaysia to push through the guidelines even though officials there had something different to say.