Yes, Sam, I remember him from Bellanet. Great contributions of our fellow Canadian. I recall trying to help mediate a meeting between NCUC and NPOC with him and Klaus Stoll to try and minimize certain differences, and Alain was fundamental in cooling down and being sensible. RIP Alain! --c.a. On 02/07/2014 10:59 AM, Sam Lanfranco wrote: > 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 > ---------------------------------------------- > "It is a disgrace to be rich and honoured > in an unjust state" -Confucius > ---------------------------------------------- > Dr Sam Lanfranco (Prof Emeritus & Senior Scholar) > Econ, York U., Toronto, Ontario, CANADA - M3J 1P3 > email: [log in to unmask] (mailto:[log in to unmask]) Skype: slanfranco > blog: http://samlanfranco.blogspot.com (http://samlanfranco.blogspot.com) > Phone: 613 476-0429 cell: 416-816-2852 > > >