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Sunsetting SixXS

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

ticho writes:

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: 2) by davester666 on Monday March 27 2017, @04:55AM

    by davester666 (155) on Monday March 27 2017, @04:55AM (#484524)

    Yeah. All the major ISPs in Canada all go "what's that" when you ask about IPv6. They are still proud about how, for the first IPv6 day, they made their home page (and only that page) accessible via IPv6 FOR THAT ONE DAY. Since then, NOTHING.

    Of course, they still need to jack up the rates after year.

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