Hi!
On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 01:45:57AM +0100, Gilbert Fernandes wrote:

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>Dragos Ruiu a icrit :

>>With great sadness, I regret to inform you that Itojun

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>>will not be presenting his great knowledge of IPv6 at

>>PacSec.  I have been informed by several sources

>>that he passed away yesterday. 

>This is very sad.
Indeed.
>I just spent some time watching again all his youtube

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>videos and the second one.. he talks of how ipv6 should be wide enough

>so we should not run out of addresses, not in his lifetime. And then he

>added that he hoped it would of course not be too short.

>Seeing this video is strange. Itojun was someone very friendly.

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>And I mean it. Years ago I worked as a journalist for a french magazine

>called Login (it no longer does exist now, its mother company has gone

>bankrupt). For one of the issues, I had to write a big paper on Ipv6

>and Itojun was, with a France Telecom ingineer specialized in ipv6 and

>working from Belgium, the one person that answered first when I was

>looking for advices and links on Internet.

>Itojun spent a lot of time searching and sending me documentation.

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>Later, I learned that he had to get up early the next day but

>nonetheless he spent several hours in the night looking for information

>and writing some for me just for helping me on that paper.

>Itojun just did it, and didnt even talked about his half night because

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>of this. He was someone gentle and kind and did efforts for others, and

>without even talking about it. Learning now that he is gone is very sad.

*nods* Thanks for that memory.
>A few years later I remember Itojun receiving from someone on one of the

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>openbsd's mailing list a rather rude answer. I did interverne and tried

>to tell that person he should be more cautious of his talk because he

>obviously didnt do his homework before being rude to Itojun (if I

>remember correctly it was after a commit and something was not working

>perfectly after).

>Itojun again did not publically answer his feelings, but I remember

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>receiving from him an email later, in private. We do meet rude people or

>even morons from time to time (especially in openbsd-misc, you know what

>I mean right ?) and this event did make something to Itojun. I could

>feel it really hurt him to see someone react with so much rudeness after

>a commit and having spent time working for the whole community. He was

>puzzled and really did not understand the whole thing got out of

>proportion like that.

*sigh* Sad, indeed. Hope it helped him that at least you stood openly

behind him.
>I spent some time after this "accident" talking with him and telling him

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>about his code and snippets I had seen, and taking some fresh news since

>our last email exchanges for my ipv6 paper.

>Only talked with him twice to say, and I will never forget his kindness

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>and being very discrete about his efforts when having to help someone

>just because you shared something he did like to work upon.

>Goodbye Itojun.
Kind regards,
Hannah.