I too would like to pay tribute to the memory of Alain Berranger. 

I knew Alain for almost twenty years. He was at Canada's International
Development Research Centre (IDRC) in Ottawa when in the mid-1990s I and
several others built the Bellanet Secretariate, housed at IDRC and an early
effort at using ICT for global development collaboration. Marie-Laure has
kindly written about Alain so I will add nothing. It was Alain who brought
me into the NPOC, NCSG, ICANN orbit. 

I too will miss him, though his memory lives on in NPOC and ICANN's
multistakeholder model. 

Sam Lanfranco
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 Dr Sam Lanfranco (Prof Emeritus & Senior Scholar)
 Econ, York U., Toronto, Ontario, CANADA - M3J 1P3
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