I, too, appreciate your thoughtfulness. 

Although I never got to work with Dr. Itojun, he definitely was a pathfinder for IPv6 deployment that we owe a great deal to. 

There is a memorial fund for his ISOC Service Award, to which interested people can contribute:

On Tue, 29 Oct 2024, at 08:58, Randy Bush wrote:

and today in 2007, itojun died.  ipv6 samurai, researcher, netbsd, iab,

...  a gentle soul and friend to many

randy

Thank you for sharing these remembrances, Randy. For me these are a good reminder of the very human side of computer networking.

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