ICANN Montréal

Last-Minute, Top-Down, Surprise Staff Draft

Resolution on Louis Touton

Whereas it is difficult to know how to thank Louis Touton adequately for his selfless, dedicated, and good-humored service to the Internet community since joining ICANN as its first employee in 1999, it is:

Resolved [03.__] that:

The Board recognizes Louis Touton as the ICANN world's most:

• rarely-sleeping, never-weeping, sanity-and-composure-keeping,

• monopoly-roasting, lawsuit-toasting, every-ICANN-webpage-posting,

• revisions-to-the-Bylaws-crafting, all-night-resolution-drafting,

• coach-class-flying, skeptic-defying, Memorandum-of-Understanding-complying,

• Diet-Coke-swilling, stone-cold-chilling, squabbling-task-force-mercy-killing,

• 7am-Sunday-phoning, openly-and-transparently-groaning,

• never-tiring-and-always-persisting, just-one-more-Appendix-to-the-agreement-insisting,

• '85-used-Jetta-driving, flagging-spirits-and-courage-reviving,

• IANA-numbering-resources-guarding, surviving-today's-constituency-bombarding,

• contract-signing-and-redlining, tasty-midnight-staff-room-dining, enduring-the-latest-plague-of-whining,

• O'Reilly-Unix-handbook-reading, yet-another-ICANN-meeting, noncompliant-registrar-beating, "Thank-you-for-calling-the-Internet-Corporation-for-Assigned-Names-and-Numbers"-voicemail-greeting…

In other words: the most General Counsel ever.

Thanks for everything; good luck back in the real world; we miss you already.