Q: What is "KAME"? Why did you choose the name? KAME is "turtle" in Japanese. Then, you may wonder why it is "turtle"... :-) See answers below.
Official answer #1: Our office is located at Karigome village, Fujisawa, Kanagawa JAPAN. Take the very first two letters and last two letters from KArigoME. Yea, you got KAME.
Official answer #2: In Asian/Indian mythology, the world is on a tray supported by elephants, and the elephants are on a giant turtle and a giant snake. The universe consists of the turtle and the snake. We are trying to shake the universe by our code, so the name is KAME.
Real answer: We got together in IPv6 hacking workshop at JAIST university (www.jaist.ac.jp/). One of core member, itojun, got very tired of tracking bugs. There was big stuffed turtle (www.nui.org/Kame/) in the laboratory. Itojun hugged the turtle and mumbled, "Mr turtle please help me debug my code...". (www.itojun.org/diary/19970930-1005/kame.html) This is the real reason for the name.
