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Carlos Friacas
cfriacas at fccn.pt
Thu Mar 23 22:37:40 CET 2017
Hi, I think a big THANK YOU is in order, for all the effort that you, Jeroen and others have invested over the years. I also know sometimes it's hard to let go from something you really cared about for a long time, but this well planned sunset process also shows you had/have a great project and team! Cheers, Carlos (from .PT) On Thu, 23 Mar 2017, Pim van Pelt wrote: > Colleagues of RIPE's IPv6 working group, > > In 1999, Jeroen and I started SixXS, a project which aimed to provide > IPv6 connectivity to users who wanted to learn about the network > protocol and gain experience operating IPv6 networks. Our vision was > to facilitate migration to IPv6 in content and access providers. > > We were able to provide IPv6 to 50?000+ individual users and companies > in 140+ countries, using servers hosted at 40+ Internet providers in > 30+ countries. We are incredibly proud of what we?ve accomplished > together, and how many people have gotten to know all about IPv6 due > to our combined efforts. > > We have completed a retrospective and rationale document, which > details our experience developing and operating the SixXS tunnelbroker > over the last 18 years. We have worked through our plans with the many > dedicated ISPs that have been involved: > https://www.sixxs.net/sunset/ > > We have reached out to users recently, giving them 6 weeks to make > alternative plans. We have chosen a somewhat symbolic date of > 2017-06-06 to turn down the SixXS service. Our website will remain as > a tombstone. > > Please feel free to pass this along to any group or list you feel > would benefit from it, and reach out to <info at sixxs.net> or to myself > directly <pim at ipng.nl> if you have thoughts you?d like to share > between now and then. > > > Kindest Regards, > Pim van Pelt and Jeroen Massar (SixXS founders) > > > -- > Pim van Pelt <pim at ipng.nl> > PBVP1-RIPE - http://www.ipng.nl/ >
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