Very sad news last week. Dr. Jun-Ichiro "itojun" Hagino, one of the celebrated computer programmers of Japan, has died. itojun's wake and funeral are this week (information at the Kame Project website.)
WIDE : Press Release : Sad News: Dr. Jun-ichiro (itojun) Hagino
itojun was known worldwide as one of the key programmers behind the IPv6 stack in BSD (a.k.a. The KAME project) among many other projects. Itojun was a tireless promoter of IPv6 as he saw the need for more IP addresses a long time ago and not only helped to create the specification, but also implemented it for BSD.
OpenBSD Journal has a thread in commemoration of itojun, with a lot of nice comments from people who he touched. I can't say it better than arrigo did:
May he rest in peace and have enough IP addresses to last him forever.
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