Wow, life is indeed fragile. I worked briefly with Itojun this year. He will be a great loss. My heart goes out to his family and friends with sincere condolences.
Hemant -----Original Message----- From: Jeroen Massar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 7:27 PM To: NAv6TF; IETF IPv6 Mailing List Subject: In Memoriam: Jun-ichiro Hagino I unfortunately just noticed the following being spread around. This is a real big loss :( >From http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20071030220114 8<---------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Jun-ichiro "itojun" Itoh Hagino passed away on October 29, 2007 at the age of 37. To those in the BSD communities he was simply Itojun, best known in his role as IPv6 KAME project core researcher. Itojun did the vast majority of the work to get IPv6 into the BSD network stacks. He was also instrumental in moving IPv6 forward in all aspects through his participation in IETF protocol design meetings. Itojun was helpful to everyone around him, and dedicated to his work. He believed and worked toward making technology available to everyone. He will be missed, and always remembered. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ->8 Rest in piece Itojun. Respect, Jeroen -------- Original Message -------- From: Dragos Ruiu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: In Memoriam: Jun-ichiro Hagino Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:10:58 -0700 With great sadness, I regret to inform you that Itojun will not be presenting his great knowledge of IPv6 at PacSec. I have been informed by several sources that he passed away yesterday. Funeral services will be held on Nov 7th at Rinkai-Saijo in Tokyo. There aren't many details of his passing, so please let his family and relatives mourn in peace for now. My heartfelt condolances go out to them, and all of his many friends. I knew Itojun as one of the smartest and kindest people I have ever met. He helped everyone around him. He graciously hosted and assisted many foreigners new to Japan at the PacSec conferences, and was a good friend to all. He would go to extraordinary lengths to help anyone around him. We will all miss him - and his work on IPv6 will continue to help us for a long time.. He once said to me, "When a professional race car driver races, his pulse gets lower and he relaxes. When I code it is the same thing." I'll miss him driving around in his prized Fiat 500... and I hope we can all proceed to help fix our V6 networks without his gentle and insistent coaching. We will announce a replacement talk shortly. If you knew or respected him, he would have wanted any energy you put towards grief to be spent on speeding the adoption and the robustness of the version 6 internet which he devoted so much of his extraordinary life to. Some more information in Japanese at http://www.hoge.org/~koyama/itojun.txt May he rest in peace, --dr -- World Security Pros. Cutting Edge Training, Tools, and Techniques Tokyo, Japan November 29/30 - 2007 http://pacsec.jp pgpkey http://dragos.com/ kyxpgp -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [email protected] Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
