SV: [centr-ga] Fwd: Peter de Blanc - letter to the Board, Bucharest Resolutions

["Dan Christensen" <dan@difo.dk>]

Dear Elisabeth,

The letter and the way you presented it today in Bucharest at the open board
session was very touching. It would of course be better if Peter was with
us, but you gave him a very beautiful goodbye. Lot of respect and dignity.

Have a good weekend when you reach home.

Best regards
Dan Christensen
.dk

-----Oprindelig meddelelse-----
Fra: owner-ga@centr.org [mailto:owner-ga@centr.org]På vegne af Elisabeth
Porteneuve
Sendt: 28. juni 2002 10:13
Til: cctld-discuss@wwtld.org
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Emne: [centr-ga] Fwd: Peter de Blanc - letter to the Board, Bucharest
Resolutions


Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 07:47:24 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Elisabeth Porteneuve <Elisabeth.Porteneuve@cetp.ipsl.fr>
To: lynn@icann.org, touton@icann.org
Cc: elisabeth.porteneuve@nic.fr, icann-board@icann.org
Subject: Peter de Blanc - letter



Bucharest 28 June 2002


To the Board of Directors of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
Numbers



>From The Country Code Managers



Peter de Blanc, 17 November 1944 - 26 June 2002



Peter passed away on 26 June 2002.



Until very recently Peter was a regular attendee in ICANN and he had
actively participated in most of the worldwide ICANN meetings, since the
beginning.



He served on the Names Council of the DNSO and also as the Chairman of the
Administrative Committee of the ccTLD Constituency. He was the ccTLD Manager
for the US Virgin Islands. (.VI)



Peter died at Fort Lauderdale Florida; where had been receiving medical
treatment.



Peter gave his time and heart to the ccTLD community, he was also a close
friend to many of us; in the ccTLD group and throughout ICANN.



He was always motivated by a desire to assist country code managers in the
developing nations and areas, and also to ensure that the power of the
Internet will be shared by everybody, both at home and worldwide.



One of Peter.s outstanding achievements was to bring the Internet to the US
Virgin Islands and to organize and found the VIP FreeNet service in 1990s,
which was the first community computer system in the Caribbean area.



Peter.s last message sent to the ccTLD community is a testimony to his
dedication.



We therefore ask the Board to join with us in formally recognizing Peter s
outstanding contribution to ICANN.



Elisabeth Porteneuve

On behalf of the ccTLD Managers