<html><body><font face="Tahoma" size="2">I too would like to pay tribute to the memory of Alain Berranger. <br><br>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. <br><br>I too will miss him, though his memory lives on in NPOC and ICANN's multistakeholder model. <br><br>Sam Lanfranco<br><font face="Tahoma" size="2">----------------------------------------------<br>
"It is a disgrace to be rich and honoured<br>
in an unjust state" -Confucius<br>
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Dr Sam Lanfranco (Prof Emeritus & Senior Scholar)<br>
Econ, York U., Toronto, Ontario, CANADA - M3J 1P3<br>
email: <a target="_blank" href="mailto:Lanfran@Yorku.ca">Lanfran@Yorku.ca</a> Skype: slanfranco<br>
blog: <a target="_blank" href="http://samlanfranco.blogspot.com">http://samlanfranco.blogspot.com</a><br>
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