Why can't Time Warner, Verizon, BT do that?
Is there a commercial interest for different companies to keep IPv4?
Is there a commercial interest for different companies to keep IPv4?
It's a huge amount of work to convert to IPv6, which includes:
- almost all networking hardware in facilities, pops, switching centers, and on customer premises (basically every device in every home.) - almost all related software stacks like kernels, network control stacks, etc. - redesign and planning of addressing topologies, ranges, configuration, etc. - updates to all support systems: inventory databases, monitoring systems, provisioning systems, security systems, etc. - updates to tooling, documentation, UIs used by engineers, customer service, field techs.
As you can see, it's a shit load of work for most large organizations and service providers.
The issue is, the modems they hand out to many of their users are not DOCSIS 3 (unless the user is paying for a plan that requires DOCSIS 3 speeds).
If you bring your own IPv6 capable modem, or sign up for one of their higher speed plans, you'll get IPv6.
IME, as long as you present the same DUID to Comcast's DHCPv6 servers, and your equipment renews its DHCP lease before the expiry time, you retain the same IPv6 prefix.
Hope this helps. :)
aside of the short-term practical issues, you also have a potential huge long-term advantage as you can stop all these pesky new disrupting services from causing you to lose money once they can't get a v4 address any more and all your subscriber are still only on v4.
Wide v6 deployment is a huge factor in helping us to keep the internet a free place where everyone can participate. At least in the long term.
IPv6 also brings the additional requirement for ISPs that they can't allocate a single outside address anymore, so no way to enforce one-machine-per-residence limitations (I wouldn't expect an ISP to try this in 2016, but it was still common five years ago).
Eh?
Have you ever seen an ISP that did this and wasn't foiled by attaching a NATting router to the ISP-provided bridge device? [0] (If the ISP is providing the router, then it's trivial to only allow traffic from either the first MAC address you see, or the MAC address configured by the customer during some setup procedure.)
[0] DSL or cable modem or whatever.
A lot of people not realize they even use IPv6. The sites which are IPv4 only are going through CGNAT.
The article says there's 10% adoption, but that's for the whole world, US currently has 25% now.