Part of the goal of dual-stacking is to enable IPv6 where you can.
Noone says you "MUST HAVE 100% IPv6-only EVERYWHERE".
Your printers, for example, can stay IPv4-only... everything else (which probably already supports IPv6, BTW) can move to IPv4+IPv6 in a planned fashion.
The benefit: you are ready before you need to be, and don't need a firedrill style deployment down the road. Oh, and it really can be fairly straight-forward:).
Sorry if your ISP is looking at that, the industry as a whole is not.
It is expected for each SOHO user to get atleast a/64 (at the absolute minimum), and preferably a/56 via DHCPv6-PD.
WRT "Basically, it'll start to happen when we really do run out of IP addresses and things get desperate"... it is important to note that we are within 2-5 years of this, and as most well managed businesses (especially ISPs) plan on 2-5 year windows the time is actually _right now_.
And that is why ISPs are (for the most part) all moving forward with IPv6 planning & integration. Not selling it publicly/production-grade yet, but ask again in the next ~year and the answer will be different in many cases (that I personally know of).
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Part of the goal of dual-stacking is to enable IPv6 where you can. Noone says you "MUST HAVE 100% IPv6-only EVERYWHERE". Your printers, for example, can stay IPv4-only ... everything else (which probably already supports IPv6, BTW) can move to IPv4+IPv6 in a planned fashion.
The benefit: you are ready before you need to be, and don't need a firedrill style deployment down the road. Oh, and it really can be fairly straight-forward :).
You plug that 20MB MFM HDD into an RLL controller, and presto - you know have a 30MB HDD. *BAM*. /feeling old now.
Sorry if your ISP is looking at that, the industry as a whole is not. It is expected for each SOHO user to get atleast a /64 (at the absolute minimum), and preferably a /56 via DHCPv6-PD.
WRT "Basically, it'll start to happen when we really do run out of IP addresses and things get desperate" ... it is important to note that we are within 2-5 years of this, and as most well managed businesses (especially ISPs) plan on 2-5 year windows the time is actually _right now_.
And that is why ISPs are (for the most part) all moving forward with IPv6 planning & integration. Not selling it publicly/production-grade yet, but ask again in the next ~year and the answer will be different in many cases (that I personally know of).