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 persons

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, brilliant, and insistent

coaching...
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 to 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
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