Thats why I consider it shameful psychopump, they only doing whats needed for users to get by, instead of been technical leaders and forward thinking.
CarlT, ask yourself tho, what is the point of it all, if you have a deadlock of (a) websites sticking to ipv4 single stack because consumer isp's dont see a need so they also dont see a need (kitz as an example), and isp's the same the other way round as they waiting for a large website to go single stack ipv6 before they roll it out, kind of like a wild west standoff.
Google have three times almost gone single stack ipv6 to "force things" but keep been talked out of it.
It feels like in 10 years time we will be in the same position. These projects to release ipv4 shouldnt even be happening, its kind of like a bandaid.
When you look at this from the broadband side of things, it probably seems I am making a fuss over nothing as everything "just works" right? But on the hosting side of things, there is extreme shortages, its routine now for many providers to run a single ipv4 policy, and they expect their customers to run everything on one ipv4, or run normally using ipv6, or pay a premium for multi ipv4.
What I would like to see is google apply a SEO penalty for ipv4 single stack, (website admins will suddenly treat ipv6 as an emergency implementation if their precious SEO is damaged), for google to do ipv6 only days multiple times a year where all their services go down for ipv4 users to "encourage isps". This may sound radical but google already do this, they use their market position to force tech adoption, but for some reason they held back on forcing ipv6 so far. Either that or countries like the UK legislate ipv6 availability enforced via ofcom. The latter solution avoids pains for consumers with services not going down to force things, as it looks to me a case of market failure where the market wont adapt a technology due to lack of commercial opportunity. There is already one clear consumer advantage to routed ipv6 which is if a household has multiple consoles, then the ports can be open and available for multiple consoles at once on one network, something not possible on ipv4 NAT.
Maybe I should contact anti piracy groups and any filtering groups to get them to lobby for it, as one thing the UK is a leader on is internet filtering, we love that as a country, and if those groups were to be convinced ipv6 helps that (ironically it does), then they could push things along.