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by joeseeder 2716 days ago
Yup, now you have to go out of your way to not support it.

Literary, every modern ISP, hosting or Cloud provides it.

Every Operating System, be it server or client or router, supports IPv6.

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> Literary, every modern ISP

This is either factually incorrect, or else you're using a definition of "modern" that excludes a substantial portion of real world isps.

It in fact excludes most ISPs in many countries.
To be precise this excludes 75% of all autonomous systems in the world, which is at least 75% of all ISPs plus those that connect to 25% of IPv6 capable autonomous systems, but still don't use IPv6. So we are talking like 80% of all ISPs in the world.
every ipv4 only isp is legacy, not modern

basically they are the edissons of electricity boom era when AC was becoming the new standard for power transfer

Not the truely Scottish ISPs. :>
yup, modern is a qualification meaning that they support current internet standards, not only legacy

as per internet standards/rfc’s IPv4 is a legacy protocol, so every ISP limiting it’s customers to only this veraion is not considered modern

What does "support" mean? Everyone having an IPv6 stack with no routing between them isn't "support".

For instance, do you support RDNSS or DHCPv6? How big are your multicast tables?

No, most ISPs don't. In fact they are afraid of the transition, because of the many glitches, the total lack of support of MANY devices on the consumer side, retraining helpdesk, and so many more.

I work for a large ISP and we've done our tests. We ran one about five years ago and it was a total disaster.

We're currently doing another one and we smoothed many things. Anyway it's not something welcomed by the helpdesk side. If a client with IPv6 calls with problems, the've found out that most of the times the only way to not spend lot of time with the customer is change the setup to a ppoe v4 and forget about it. And we've used competent people for this test, not you average joe with 2 prior weeks training in networking.

Helpdesk agents hate it, and the come up with very good reasons.

What exaclty are the reasons, why helpdesk agents hate it?
More info about that "total disaster"?
FIOS doesn’t support it.

Give that its a fiber ISP, I would consider that “Modern”.