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