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A couple of weeks ago, on October 29 2007, Jun-ichiro “itojun” Itoh Hagino passed away at the age of 37.

To those in the BSD communities he was simply Itojun, best known in his role as IPv6 KAME project core researcher. Itojun did the vast majority of the work to get IPv6 into the BSD network stacks. He was also instrumental in moving IPv6 forward in all aspects through his participation in IETF protocol design meetings. Itojun was helpful to everyone around him, and dedicated to his work. He believed and worked toward making technology available to everyone. He will be missed, and always remembered.

I had the pleasure of meeting itojun at the first BSDCan conference in 2004, where both he and I were speakers. He was a really great guy and needless to say played a huge role in advancing IPv6 work, in particular making the KAME project possible.

Really sad news.

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