xs26.net has free access to the IPv6 Internet. (xs26 is like "Access to six", that is IPv6.) The POPs are in Europe, so users in North America must connect across the Big Pond. I plan to check this out in more detail when I have some spare time.
Those of us who aspire to be full-fledged citizens of the Internet, with a global network address, will one day be using IPv6. And we won't need to get IPv6 access from our ISP. Instead, we will gain access to a provider like xs26.net via a tunnel across the IPv4 Internet. The best tunnel technology for most home users will be teredo, which is designed to work in the presence of NATs. But it may also be possible to gain access via a statically configured tunnel.
I wonder how long it will be before those who design peer-to-peer applications realize that rather than fighting NATs, they really should just use IPv6. Apparently, Microsoft gets it, as its peer-to-peer technology is built on IPv6.
Posted by Doug Sauder at February 5, 2005 01:36 PM