SixXS - Thank you for your service! Let there be native IPv6 for everybody
Monday, June 5. 2017
Ok, we've established earlier, that IPv6 isnt' getting traction. ISPs are simply to lazy and they don't care about their customers, only their profits matter. It's really bad for profit to do improvements on their systems and networks. Meanwhile IPv4-addresses ran out on IANA, but ISPs don't care about that either, they stockpiled addresses and have plenty to go with.
To get IPv6 on my systems, I've been using free-of-charge service SixXS for almost 10 years. They provide IPv6-on-IPv4 -tunnels using IP-protocol 41 or 6in4. The tunnels I've been using in Finland have been provided by local ISP, DNA, again free-of-charge. During those years of service, I managed to accumulate almost 7000 ISK, that's 5 ISK per week per tunnel, if the tunnel is running without any problems.
On IPv6 day (6th June) 2017 SixSX will shut down all services. See, sunset announcement for their rationale for doing this. They pretty much say, that they ran tunnels for 17 years and don't want to do that anymore, ISPs should provide native IPv6 to every single customer they have. I'm totally agreeing with them. I'd like to keep my tunnels running, still. 
It is what it is, decisions have been made and it's not going to change. So, my sincere thanks go to SixXS and DNA, and especially to all the hard working people on those organizations. Thank you for your service!
Pim van Pelt on :
I pass the baton to the access provider networks, which are starting to advance their edge IPv6 activities, looking at IPv6 statistics for example by Google:
https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html
Good luck in the future!