On Fri, Mar 28, 2025 at 8:20 AM William Herrin via NANOG < nanog@lists.nanog.org> wrote:
On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 1:25 PM Brandon Martin via NANOG <nanog@lists.nanog.org> wrote:
Until consumers care, bulk-subscriber driven residential ISPs probably won't care. They have to provide IPv4 anyway, and most of the startups are stuck running CGNAT to do it already, so IPv6 is just another operational hassle for them.
I'm not sure why a modern ISP would fail to at least deploy the minimum for IPv6: 6rd is easy enough to implement and if you don't _automatically_ enable it for customers then it doesn't have to be as efficient as your IPv4 offering.
Verizon Fios customer here (Western PA). Given that Verizon's "Learn about Fios" page still says that customers who get a /56 will be able to deploy up to *56* LANs, it doesn't give me a ton of confidence that Fios will be dual-stacked network-wide any time soon. I've had Fios service in one place or another since 2012, and it's been "real soon now" since then. I continue to call their customer service line periodically and ask about v6 availability in my area and I usually get the digital equivalent of a blank stare, followed by "Ok, I'm putting a note in your account that you asked about it." I've seen reports online about customers in other areas having v6 available, but no luck here so far. Thank you jms