Comment by WarOnPrivacy
6 days ago
> as a regular person requesting IPv6 space you'd just ask your ISP
In real life these requests don't lead to IPv6 allocation, no matter how they're asked or how often. Here are a few of the responses I've received just this year.
"At this time we are not able to provide a IPv6 unfortunately."
"We regret to inform you that, at this time, we do not offer IPv6 support."
"I wanted to inform you that IPv6 is currently not available"
My current ISP went as far as dumping their own IPv6 allocation. Three weeks ago it stopped being advertised in their ASN. Which I suppose is their way of telling me to stop asking.
Past that: Over 15yrs of asking various ISPs (large and small) to make allocations available, none of us ever budged the IPv6 needle.
My mobile operator and my ISP at home both provide IPv6 connectivity without me asking. All I had to do was to enable IPv6 on my router.
> My mobile operator and my ISP at home both provide IPv6 connectivity without me asking. All I had to do was to enable IPv6 on my router.
I think this is representative of every IPv6 deployment. You get it or you don't. If it isn't available to you, asking won't make any difference.
FTR we have 6 wireline ISP here. Cable has IPv6, the 5 fiber operators do not.