Note that you need an IPv6 capable cable modem & router. Recent cable modems are mostly capable, and most (all?) Apple routers are.
If anyone has Comcast and wants to play with IPv6, I recommend setting up a pfSense firewall/router. It has been a good learning experience. http://www.pfsense.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6vT3_2PO1w
I can (sometimes) get an IPv6 address from them, although it appears to always be in some kind of weird non-routable mode. I don't know enough about ipv6 to say exactly what is going wrong. Once upon a time I actually managed to ping -6 some external hosts, but when I came back a day later, it stopped working. Weird.
http://www.timewarnercable.com/en/residential-home/support/t...
Because that is a "link local" address that gets automatically assigned to any IPv6-enabled interface.
Which is ridiculous of course.
Unofficially IP addresses can be bought and defacto transferred. They could certainly given a budget do that despite what it says here:
http://www.apnic.net/services/services-apnic-provides/helpde...
Ok here it is (and I also have other personal knowledge of this happening):
http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/microsoft-pays-no...
Some major US ISPs: Comcast: 20.61% AT&T: 13.53% Verizon Wireless (not FiOS): 40.03% Time Warner Cable: 3.88% T-Mobile USA: 9.58% Google Fiber: 71.87%
Very large ISPs have been deploying it because it actually simplifies their internal networks (which can be too large for RFC1918 space) and because carrier grade NAT is expensive.
I host a fairly large number of domains, and I see IPv6 traffic hovers around the 5-15% level.
[0]: http://www.comcast6.net/index.php/8-ipv6-trial-news-and-info...
From that viewpoint, 25% seems quite impressive.
Time Warner Cable certainly doesn't, but I was surprised to find that even Verizon doesn't provide it for many (most?) of their FiOS customers.
When pressed about IPv6 support, ISPs, typically respond that very few services require it, so it's not a priority for them. But this is a catch-22 - the only reason so few services require it is that so few people have access to it!
And the people who suffer the most aren't their customers - it's people in other countries who are forced to live behind NAT because of IP address exhaustion.
For example, the entire country of Qatar shares a single IP address: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:82.148.97.69/header