> 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
>
> --
> World Security Pros. Cutting Edge Training, Tools, and Techniques
> Tokyo, Japan November 29/30 - 2007
http://pacsec.jp
> pgpkey
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