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Hello Tommi,

On Friday March 24 2023 06:47, you wrote to me:

 >> Rumour has is that Route48 is closing down.

 TK> Yes. I got email from them yesterday.

I have always wondered about the bussines model of these free tunnel
providers. In tha case of SixXs it was clear: there was no bussines model, it
was just idealism. And the end was not all that unpredictable: they (Jeroen
Massar and Pim van Pelt) just got tired of it.

In the case of he.net the bussines model was spreading IPv6 so that they could
make money on those needing help getting their bussines running on IPv6. There
are indications that their free tunnels may not last forever.

Route48? Frankly I know very little about them. But whatever their bussines
model was, it apparently didn't work...

It would be a nice day when these tunnel provider were no longer needed
because we all could get native IPv6 from our regular ISP.


Cheers, Michiel

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