参考資料2. Andrew McLaughlin氏による Louis Touton氏への謝辞

2003/7/22 ICANN報告会
参考資料2

以下は2003年6月26日のICANN理事会で、元ICANN staffのAndrew McLaughlin氏 が読み上げたLouis Touton氏に対する謝辞である。これは preliminary reportには採用されなかったが、ユーモアに溢れていて面白いので、 McLaughlin氏の許可を得て提供する。

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.