> For what it's worth I get static IPv6 and IPv4 (although of course the IPv4 is a tiny block, only a /27 IIRC whereas I have a /48 of IPv6) but I'm in the UK a

> For what it's worth I get static IPv6 and IPv4 (although of course the IPv4 is a tiny block, only a /27 IIRC whereas I have a /48 of IPv6) but I'm in the UK and with a specialist ISP that cares a lot about this stuff. Even some of the large ISPs can get it right. I used to have fiber optic service from a large telephone company (starts with "C" ends in "EnturyLink") and could use their account management portal to go and get anything up to a /26, complete with setting up reverse DNS, just by clicking a button and agreeing to a relative pittance of money. I think the /26 was $40 per month and the /28 I had was $10 a couple of years ago. They would give me a static IPv6 /48 for nothing, just a click, and delegate the reverse DNS zone to me. A /56 that was supposedly dynamic but never actually changed was given by default. The problem seems to be which ISPs want to do what. ISPs run by phone companies seem to think of their networks, and the customer networks attached to them, as actual internetworked networks. ISPs run by video companies seem to think of their networks as extensions of distribution systems for linear television channels.