(Sorry if this is too off-topic:) ISPs seem designed to funnel people to capitalist cloud services, or at least I feel like that. And it endlessly frustrates me.
The reason is even though IPv6 addresses are widely available (unlike IPv4), most ISPs won’t allow consumers to request a static rather than a dynamic IPv6 prefix along with a couple of IPv6 reverse DNS entries.
Instead, this functionality is gatekept behind expensive premium or even business contracts, in many cases even requiring legal paperwork proving you have a registered business, so that the common user is completely unable to self-host e.g. a fully functional IPv6-only mail server with reverse DNS, even if they wanted to.
The common workaround is to suck up to the cloud, and rent a VPS, or some other foreign controlled machine that can be easily intercepted and messed with, and where the service can be surveilled better by big money.
I’m posting this since I hope more people will realize that this is going on, and both complain to their ISPs, but most notably to regulatory bodies and to generally spread the word. If we want true digital autonomy to be more common, I feel like this needs to be fixed for consumer landline contracts.
Or did I miss something that makes this make sense outside of a big money capitalist angle?
Nah, I don’t think there’s a lot on IPv6 in that book. I think OP’s concern is valid. Accessing devices at home isn’t unheard of. The amount of smart home stuff, appliances and consumer products increases every day. And we all gladly pay our ISPs to connect us and our devices to the internet. They could as well do a good job while at it. I mean should it cost extra to manage a static prefix, so be it. But oftentimes they really make it hard to even give them money and obtain that “additional” service.
Personally, I find it hard to believe that just not changing somebody’s prefix all the time would possibly cause so much technical extra effort that any additional fee is justified.