I know that many of you are thinking about our friends from Japan following the tragic events that have taken place there over the last few weeks. I am forwarding this note of thanks from Jun Murai. I am sure you will find it interesting. I find it awesome that the Internet has had a positive impact in the face of so much despair. Thanks for all you do for the Internet, Russ Begin forwarded message: > From: Jun Murai <jun@wide.ad.jp> > Date: March 27, 2011 12:00:44 PM EDT > To: "ietf@ietf. org" <ietf@ietf.org> > Cc: "chair@ietf. org" <chair@ietf.org>, "Lynn St. Amour" <st.amour@isoc.org> > Subject: Thank you, IETF! > > Dear IETF friends, > > The national police department of Japan reported on March 26th > regarding the number of killed people by the earthquake and tsunami as > 10,489 and also reported that 16,621 people are not yet found. Thus > the total number of lost people is expected to be 27,000 or more. This > is certainly a tragedy. > > IETFers, we sincerely appreciate all of your encouraging messages and > sympathies for this tragic and difficult time for us. Also, you are > giving us a tremendous amount of support and donations to help the > damaged area and the people there. We, as the Internet engineers in > Japan have been working with you friends from the IETF community and > the products of your industries to deliver the maximum help. > > As I reported in <http://msg.wide.ad.jp/> and elsewhere the Internet > helped people from the first moment to confirm the safety of family > members and friends even when electric power had failed and voice > phones were strictly controlled. > > The Internet community in Japan has been working to open the data > generated from the official sources properly to everyone. An example > can be seen as <http://eq.wide.ad.jp/index_en.html>. > > Note that we want to address the lack of information for non-Japanese > language speakers especially those located in Japan. > Unfortunately, the initial situation of the nuclear power plants were > like ‘Jaws’ situation; some did not agree to open the information to > the public promptly. We certainly would like to contribute to the open > access of the critical information for the diversity of people around > the world. > > We are having a rotational scheduled regional power down in Tokyo and > its connecting prefectures. This situation is not expected to be > better soon, rather, even worse when summer comes. The life of us here > is very hard, especially to keep the servers and disks up and running > for services of the Internet during the power failure period. > > Some of us from Japan might have to cancel our participation in the > IETF this time, like myself. But we certainly wish the best discussion > for the IETF process. We continue to work for recovering from this > tragic disaster as experts of the technologies IETF has developed. > Thanks for the Internet, a packet switching network and its successful > deployment to cover the maximum population even for this disaster > occasion, and thank all of you IETFers again for your sympathies and > friendship to Japan. > > Sincerely, > Jun Murai > Founder, WIDE Project > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce mailing list IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
