[6bone] pTLA deallocation

[Bob Fink]

Pim,

At 09:35 AM 9/22/2002 +0200, Pim van Pelt wrote:
>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.

Thanks for returning your now unused 6bone pefix. This is the right thing 
to do for you, and for the 6bone.


>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 ?

I can't think of any. Let's see if others come up with any.


>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.

Good idea. I would appreciate it if you could send me your suggested 
checklist when you are done.

Let me know if I can be of help. Also, let me know when I should officially 
mark the prefix as not in use.


Thanks,

Bob