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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pgpkey http://dragos.com/ kyxpgp

This is very sad. 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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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 commun...
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Hi!
*sigh* Sad, indeed. Hope it helped him that at least you stood openly
Kind regards,
Hannah.

Physically, Itojun has gone from this temporal earthly life. But, IMHO, it won't be too

long that his legacy in the IPV6 arena will be of immense adaptations and benefits to

the internet community. Hence, the legend of the great gentle samurai hacker will always

Thats sad man. He was still active 10/25

$Id: index.html,v 1.32 2007/10/25 06:28:10 itojun Exp $

<http://ipv6samurais.com/ipv6samurais/>
I noticed on his videos he was always coughing. Must be a respiratory ailment.

May he rest in peace.

Perhaps, its better to remember the life and legacy of this samurai hacker. His website

maybe of interest as shown below:
http://www.itojun.org/itojun.html
.*,

I didn't really know Itojun personally, but I very recently watched

his IPv6 videos. He struck me as a very kind and mild-mannered person.

So sad to hear that he is gone. http://www.youtube.com/user/itojun
--

www.ropersonline.com

How would people feel about creating a Wikipedia article for Itojun?

Surely his IPv6 work makes him notable enough?
eg. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itojun
(The reason I haven't done so myself is that I fundamentally disagree

with Wikipedia blocking non-account holders from creating articles, so

I'm personally not creating any, but others may not share thse

concerns.)

it all comes down to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:Notability

my life is too short to fight with WP admins.
he is mentioned explicitly in:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6  (with edit link)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_OpenBSD_developers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvi
and so on.
-f

--

excellent day to have a rotten day.

This thread is the first I have heard of him.  Who is (or was) he?
A.

How unbelievably misc@. You can't even have the decency to google his

name before you spout your ignorance here, in an incredibly

insensitive manner.  Are you really that lazy that you can't google

"itojun" and I feel lucky? - Instead you need to post here in a way

that makes all the developers, myself included, wonder why we even

read this lists to see posts like this from people who are too lazy to

even look up the name of someone who was instrumental in helping to

write and improve a lot of they software you're using, at least if

you're on this list because you run OpenBSD.
	Your post would be on par with asking on this list who the

hell this Theo de Raadt was. 
	-Bob

Shucks, really.  I'm the ultimate outsider, and I've heard Itojun's

name and nym since the dawn of the 'net, it seems, and have exchanged

emails with him on certain subjects, I believe back in the days

when the pmax port was a current subject.  The man was a seemingly

inexhaustible well of energy coupled with good cheer.  A hacker's

hacker.
May he rest in peace.  His death is a loss to those who never had

the privilege to know him.
"The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long."

	(Ridley Scott, "Blade Runner")

(A quote from his webpage).  That would be www.itojun.org, for the

totally bereft of clue.
Dave

Try to see people's ignorance as a testament to his character in

wanting to do what he felt was the right thing.  How many developers

do you know that had commit access to FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD?

I only noticed accidently when the documentation for all three BSDs

looked very familiar once long ago in IPv6's early stages :-).  While

I saw him do a fascinating talk on IPv6 once, I see him as

representing the many quiet coders who quite literally shut up and hack.
It's the quiet ones who change the world, the loud ones only take the

credit.
RIP itojun.
--

Chris

Id didn't know him personally, but I do know that he was a man of many talents:

People here remember him as a fellow OpenBSD developer. However,

possibly his most lasting legacy will be his tireless work (for over

ten years) on IPv6.
The Internet will only be able to continue to grow because of IPv6,

and a big part of the IPv6 work was done by itojun, in collaboration

with others, particularly within the KAME project (

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KAME_project ), and in collaboration with

the WIDE ( http://www.wide.ad.jp/ ) , TAHI ( http://www.tahi.org/ )

and USAGI ( http://www.linux-ipv6.org/ ) projects.
In short, his work (and IPv6 advocacy) will prove vital for the future

of the Internet and its continued existence as one global entity. If

you like the Internet, then maybe you should be aware of itojun's

work. (Oh, and Google is your friend. ;-)
regards,

--ropers

Same here.  I've been following IPv6 for a while and he has been a

central figure whose name is everywhere.  I expect that much of

wikipedia's resistance stems from the ignorance antagonism towards IPv6
However, whether there are bonafide fifth columnists even at wiki, or

plain old ignorance, or simply malevolent emergent behavior,

technologies and methods that put Redmond products in bad light get

actively pushed aside or hidden.
IPv6 brings to light a whole slew of insurmountable design and

implementation problems in the Redmond movement's gimmicks - er -

products.  And the way we do currently networking in general with IPv4.

  So in addition to other factors, there are those with incentive to
Well put.
Regards,

-Lars

This maybe not appropriate for this subject, but it certainly fits the

quote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y36fG2Oba0
Best

   Martin

I will talk with one of the wikipedia admins i know. She is a developer

and might be sympathetic.
-- Marina Brown

I only knew him from the work he did with IPv6 but I know

he will be missed by myself and many, many others.  I was

just thinking about him a couple of weeks ago when I

attended a NANOG / ARIN meeting that centered around IPv6

almost in it's entirety.
Itojun, may you find eternal peace.
diana