Hi! On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 01:45:57AM +0100, Gilbert Fernandes wrote: >Dragos Ruiu a icrit :
>>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. >This is very sad. Indeed. >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. *nods* Thanks for that memory. >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 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 >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 >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.
