Greetings Alejandra and my fellow Councilors,

First, I wish to express my appreciation to Katrina for her diligent work in participating in this session, and representing the ccNSO and overall ccTLD Community in this session.

Second, I also wish to thank my fellow ccNSO Councilors for their post-session comments to the Council list regarding this session.

I have been reluctant to offer my views on this session; I was hoping that with the passage of time, my initial visceral reaction to this session would abate. It has not.

The portion of the session involving “Ms. Holly Raiche, ALAC Member from APRALO (.au - not for profit)”, subsequent to her straight-forward presentation about auDA (the first slide of her two slide set presentation), was frankly nothing short of a complete hatchet job on both the .cc and .cx ccTLDs, and to a lesser extent, ICANN/IANA and the rest of us within the ccTLD community.

For my non-native English speaking colleagues, a hatchet job is “a false accusation of an offense or a malicious misrepresentation of someone's words or actions”.

Her presentation of accusations was disorganized from the start, and only got worse as she confused the two ccTLDs in her accusatory diatribe against the two ccTLDs. I failed to detect a coherent theme in her “presentation”, such as it was…

As unhappy as I am with this session, I will afford Maureen Hilliard, the chair of ALAC, the benefit of the doubt. I cannot believe she saw this, coming, or was complicit in it. However, I think a conversation between Alejandra and her are in order, and I further submit an apology from ALAC to the ccNSO for this attack on our fellow ccTLDs is also in order.

Best Regards,

/Stephen