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> Also, why exactly did we introduce IPv6 again? I sure wish my (small, rural) ISP finally did. They're still "evaluating" it.

• Nextgrid 3y ago
  This is quite trivial to work around by just tunneling/VPN'ing to a IPv6 tunnel broker. Yes it's not really efficient but it will work especially if the only thing you use it for is communications. It's actually no different to TURN (if you were behind a restrictive NAT), just that your TURN provider is now the tunnel broker and is independent of your communications service. The problem is that there's no money to be made here, so no software is built to take advantage of end-to-end connectivity. Even if you could get IPv6 right now (and you can with tunneling/VPN), what are you going to do with it? Big tech is quite happy with the loss of end-to-end connectivity since it enforces the need for a middleman, and they have no reason to make it easier for you to regain your independence. The ISP is still "evaluating" IPv6 because there's just no real end-user demand because besides ideology or specific requirements of a technical minority there just isn't any reason for the average user to need it. If tomorrow every OS came with a built-in SIP client that actually worked and there was an actual successful deployment of consumer-grade SIP, demand for IPv6 would skyrocket and the ISP would get their act together or start losing customers over it. But there will never be a built-in SIP client because Big Tech would rather have you use FaceTime or MS Teams or Skype than some open protocol that doesn't require a middleman nor isn't vulnerable to advertising nor tracking.