[6bone] pTLA deallocation

[Pim van Pelt]

Dear Bob, dear 6bone-community, 

On the 1st of March 2002, I was allocated 3ffe:8350::/28 from the 6bone
for running a test deployment within Business Internet Trends, based in
the Netherlands. Two months later, I requested an allocation from the 
RIPE-NCC and was allocated 2001:7b8::/35. 

Recently I transitioned the backbone network for this ISP from PDH to
Ethernet over WDM and am succesfully running 4 gigabit WDM trunks from
our hometown of Ede (NL) to the AMS-IX, spanning 90 km. 

After careful consideration by myself and the NOC people I represent, I
have concluded that we no longer need the 6BONE allocation and that we
are ready to provide commercial grade IPv6 connectivity to our
colocation and dialup customers.

I've removed the ip6.int files from our nameservers and retracted the
BGP announcements for the /28 network sometime last week. I checked just
now and see that the network no longer exists on 6BONE. That means I'm
ready to officially give the allocation back to the registry.

I would like to say thank-you to Bob F and to David K who were so
supporting in rolling out IPv6 at AS12859. I hope your wine tasted ok,
David.

Some operational matters should perhaps be addressed. After removing
DNS, BGP and all references within my network, apart from removing the
objects in the 6BONE whois-db, are there other things to take care of ?

Perhaps we can set up a checklist and stick it on www.6bone.net for other
operators to take a look at when they return their 6BONE allocation in
the future.

Kind regards,
Pim van Pelt

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