Re: IETF: SixXS is shutting down

[Pim van Pelt <[e-mail]>]

Hoi Alex,

On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 3:05 PM, Alexandre Petrescu
<[e-mail]> wrote:
> Congratulations for past achievements!
Thank you.

> Tunnelbroker ok, but how about ULA generation and registration at sixxs.  Is
> it shut down tombstone too?
> https://www.sixxs.net/tools/grh/ula/
TL/DR: Plan of record is that it will cease to exist.

This registry was for educational purposes, and has no official
status. Importantly, as ULA is random per definition, the chance of
collisions is extremely low. It is fairly straight forward to get a
prefix from one of the RIRs. While that does cost some money, it is an
activity that is not the main charter of SixXS and will be expected to
continue with the RIRs.

> And what happens to the registrations?
Can't quite parse the question - so let me offer three answers (maybe
the answer you're looking for is among them):
Firstly, registrations (new users) has been closed since Q4'15, so we
haven't accepted new registrations since that time.
Secondly, in the lifetime of the project, we have taken privacy and
individually identifiable information very seriously, and to our
knowledge have never suffered an information breach or leek. After
decommissioning the services we run, we will destroy all PII data,
keeping only traffic statistics at the PoP level, and general
statistics of our usage, like the graphs seen in the posted sunset
rationale document.
Finally, the allocations we've received from LIRs (total used space is
about one /33 of assigned and active space, and upwards of a /30 of
allocated space), will be returned to the LIRs and all database
objects deleted.

Happy to discuss this or other things further as we near the lights-out date.

groet,
Pim



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