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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:
- SixXS penetration has hit a point of diminishing returns (see the 'Growth' subsection of this document).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by VLM on Sunday March 26 2017, @12:45PM (2 children)
Been a sixxs user for more than a decade. My local monopoly provider will not be providing ipv6, they're a monopoly why would they provide good service? If they did provide ipv6 they'd probably F it all up and not give out /48 size or /56 size blocks they'd probably give like one address and tell us to do ipv6 nat.
I did the hurricane electric certification so long ago they were still giving out cool tee shirts (like around turn of century) and back then the HE tunnel broker couldn't handle dynamic endpoints. Maybe things have improved since the turn of the century.
What I'm probably going to so is my personal private server has ipv6 access and also has openvpn access and supposedly openvpn has good enough ipv6 support so I'll VPN all my ipv6 traffic to my personal server acting as an endpoint.
So I got a plan, just need time to get around to implementing it.
(Score: 2) by SDRefugee on Sunday March 26 2017, @04:08PM
Geez.. I hope HE doesn't go the same way... I'm on Cox and they finally rolled out ipv6 about 6 months ago, and after having used an HE tunnel for several years to get ipv6 support, I turned off the tunnel and *tried* to use ipv6 thru Cox.. I constantly lost my /64 prefix from Cox, and had to reboot my router to recover it. I reported the problems to Cox and they kept saying "it should be fixed now", only to find it *wasn't*... So I went back reluctantly to the HE tunnel, which, of course, *just works* 100%...
America should be proud of Edward Snowden, the hero, whether they know it or not..
(Score: 2) by davester666 on Monday March 27 2017, @04:55AM
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.