alt Hacker NewsI'd love to have ipv6. The idea every device in my network can have its own unique worldwide address is awesome.
Having said that I still want to have a router with routing rules and firewalls and a network range I can divide into separate protected networks but in reality your home ISP will most likely give you a router with a /64 address.
You're aware of DHCPv6 Prefix Delegation? The two US-based ISPs I've used in the past ~twenty years (Comcast and Monkeybrains) use it to provide IPv6 service and permit your DHCPv6 client to request a /60 prefix to use as you see fit. It's not a /56, but it's also very much not a /64.
I'd expect "Give home users a /60 via DHCPv6-PD" to be considered "best current practice" in the ISP "community"... so if I switched to another ISP that claimed to provide IPv6 addresses, "ask for a PD-assigned /60" would be the first thing I'd try.