Thanks to Karen Rose 
 
Whereas, Karen Rose will shortly leave her position with the United
States Department of Commerce.  Karen has been one of the unsung
heroes of the evolution of the Internet community's processes for
coordinating the assignment of key technical parameters, including
the domain names.  She was instrumental in the organization of the
global discussions that led to the issuance of the Green and White
Papers.  She has been a tireless supporter of community's efforts to
implement the concepts of the White Paper, including the
establishment and recognition of ICANN and the introduction of 
competition in domain-name registration services.  Throughout this
time she has been a vital ambassador among the many and diverse
constituencies whose cooperation has been essential to ICANN's
development as a global, private-sector, consensus-creation body, 
and most impressively, she has done it with grace and good humor in
frequently highly contentious circumstances.  
 
Therefore [02.__] the ICANN Board, on behalf of the worldwide
Internet community, expresses the deepest appreciation and respect
for the critical contributions of Karen Rose to ICANN and to the
concept of global private-sector coordination of the assignment of 
the Internet's technical parameters.