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posted by Fnord666 on Sunday March 26 2017, @08:01AM   Printer-friendly
from the one-less-excuse-for-ISPs dept.

SixXS will be sunset in H1 2017. All services will be turned down on 2017-06-06, after which the SixXS project will be retired. Users will no longer be able to use their IPv6 tunnels or subnets after this date, and are required to obtain IPv6 connectivity elsewhere, primarily with their Internet service provider.

SixXS (Six Access) is a free, non-profit, non-cost service for Local Internet Registries (LIR's) and endusers. The main target is to create a common portal to help company engineers find their way with IPv6 networks deploying IPv6 to their customers in a rapid and controllable fashion. To reach these targets we are providing a whitelabel IPv6 Tunnel Broker and Ghost Route Hunter, an IPv6 route monitoring tool and various other services to help out where needed.

Their reasoning to finally do this is:

Building up to our conclusion, we make some critical observations:

  1. SixXS penetration has hit a point of diminishing returns (see the 'Growth' subsection of this document).
  2. Content providers have shown great progress in enabling users to reach their websites via IPv6, in our opinion formally breaking the chicken and egg problem.
  3. Access providers have shown reasonable interest in providing IPv6 to users, but some have started to quote SixXS as a reason they do not have to show an interest.
  4. Consumers should not have to be involved in the discussion as they largely need not know, or care, how the Internet works, as long as they can reach the Internet resources they want, when they want them.

Our conclusion is that SixXS is no longer able to contribute to the solution, and is hampering its own goals of facilitating the migration of consumers to native IPv6. We have therefore decided to shut down our services on 2017-06-06.


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  • (Score: 1) by pTamok on Sunday March 26 2017, @09:13PM

    by pTamok (3042) on Sunday March 26 2017, @09:13PM (#484436)

    What you say is true for many countries: the (old) copper infrastructure is well shared - the issue I have is the availability of fibre-based services that can deliver symmetrical Gigabit capacities. There is no universal service obligation to deliver fibre to everywhere - even the much-vaunted Finnish Universal Service Obligation isn't quite what it seems - read the details in this old article https://arstechnica.com/business/2012/10/finland-plan-for-universal-100mbps-service-by-2015-on-track/ [arstechnica.com]

    The problem is, the old copper infrastructure can't support Gigabit capacities, and governments are not willing to pay to provide fibre everywhere to facilitate competition in delivering services over a common/shared physical optical fibre infrastructure*. So you end up with a fragmented patchwork of local monopolies delivering services to the highest density developments, with unserviced wastelands in-between.

    Perhaps there should be a mandate that any new provision of a utility service (electricity, sewerage, water, gas) to a location is accompanied by fibre, financed by a fixed levy spread across all new installations. The marginal costs would then be minimised, and you would get a gradual roll-out of infrastructure as services are renewed - much like the criticised 'smart' electricity meter roll-out.

    *And, indeed, some places are removing the old copper infrastructure as it is no longer economically maintainable. Telenor Norway was doing this, and replacing fixed-line phones with static mobile phones, and in 2012 predicted they would turn off the copper telephony network. That decision was changed in 2015 , but shows which way the wind is blowing.