Euro6IX is a three-year pan-European IPv6 research and deployment project, featuring the major European telcos (BT Exact, France Telecom, Telefonica, DT, etc) and a small number of universities. The project will deploy a number of IPv6 Internet Exchange points in Europe, and will seek to investigate new business models appropriate for IPv6 deployment. ECS' main role is the development of an IPv6 Unified Messaging System (6UMS) that will demonstrate IPv6's advantages for peer-to-peer applications.