ISP_throwaway

Ah, I see the reason for the confusion. I thought you were an ISP, not an end user.

> Yours might but mine ran out years ago.

Out of interest, why didn’t you re-up when you still could?

You could still get some two years ago.

This is a great way of enhancing the Great Firewall of China: simply cut off the rest of the world that is using IPv4.

Good thing you are a dictator.

No need to worry about silly things like the popularity of such a move, the cost involved and the mountain of e-waste produced.

That’s fine, each to their own. You might not be alone, but you should take into account that you are an atypical customer.

Different customers value different things. In the list of things people value in their broadband, IPv6 doesn’t even register for for the majority. There are markets where you cannot even give away IPv6 connectivity.

Of those showing an interest in IPv6, many just want a static IP. If you give them one then you have solved their problems and are never heard from again.

If you really, really want IPv6 then you can usually get it in most markets. You might have to upgrade to business service or switch to an operator providing service over legacy copper facilities. That is, however, a bridge too far for almost everybody.

As an aside, you don’t indicate that you would pay a premium for IPv6 service. That’s not very enticing from a business perspective. If there was real demand for IPv6 or it could be provided for a premium that would change.

It’s a classical chicken and egg situation. No services require IPv6, so there is no demand for IPv6 and thus no IPv6 offerings either.

I’d be interested to hear why you highly value IPv6 connectivity, especially if you had a static IPv4 allocation.

I wasn’t making a blanket statement about static IPv4 availability, rather it was an observation from our own market.

That being said, most carriers or major ISPs aren’t actually that hard up for IPv4 space.

By no means will static IPv4s be available on all plans, but merely changing AP or plan type will commonly result in the ability to purchase a static IPv4.

It’s mostly about lubricating with money to find a solution rather than an all out lack of IPv4.

The way I see it, IPv6 is somebody else’s problem.

You can’t make money with IPv6 and nobody wants it. From a customer support perspective, IPv6 is just another problem nobody needs.

We, and all the other ISPs in our market, have enough IPv4 for the foreseeable future.

NAT works where you need to conserve addresses space and those consumers that need a static IPv4 can get it, and what’s better, will pay for it.

IPv6 support on consumer devices is a dumpster fire. No way I am touching that in production.

So, no, I have no plans to deploy IPv6 to customers. I will reconsider when there’s money in it, but preferably not before various vendors have gotten their IPv6 shit together.

In other words, we the current ISPs in the market are good. Sucks to be a new ISP though.