Re: IPv4 flag day

["Aaron C. de Bruyn via NANOG" <nanog () lists nanog org>]

On Tue, Jun 16, 2026 at 11:04 AM Douglas Fischer via NANOG <
nanog () lists nanog org> wrote:

> My line of thinking is very similar to yours...
> The only difference is that I believe that the cause of cancer(turnoff) is
> those who have technical, emotional, or cognitive impediments to letting
> the legacy die of starvation and working with what is real.

My local monopoly hasn't even begun to think of deploying IPv6.
On top of that, they decided they don't like static IPv4 anymore.  I'm
grandfathered in with a /30 at $15/mo, but if I want to set up new service
or make changes the cost goes to $250/mo because their "network engineer"
doesn't like messing around in the "cisco command line".

So what now?
Go to Starlink at 3x+ the price and 1/4th the speed?
Continue using HE for a tunnelbroker for another decade or two?

My local ISP might have technical, emotional, or cognitive impediments to
enabling IPv6...but what it anyone going to do about it?
They don't listen to customers.
Their sole upstream is Lumen.  Gonna get Lumen to refuse to connect with
them?
Or maybe get Facebook, YouTube, Netflix and everyone else to just disable
IPv4 (and losing customers)?

There's no incentive to "fix" the "problem".

-A
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