Hi!

On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 01:45:57AM +0100, Gilbert Fernandes wrote:
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>Dragos Ruiu a icrit :

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>>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. 

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>This is very sad.

Indeed.

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>I just spent some time watching again all his youtube
>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.

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

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

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

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>A few years later I remember Itojun receiving from someone on one of the 
>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).

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

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>I spent some time after this "accident" talking with him and telling him 
>about his code and snippets I had seen, and taking some fresh news since 
>our last email exchanges for my ipv6 paper.

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>Only talked with him twice to say, and I will never forget his kindness 
>and being very discrete about his efforts when having to help someone 
>just because you shared something he did like to work upon.

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>Goodbye Itojun.

Kind regards,

Hannah.