[ih] Internet without entrenched factions?

[John Gilmore]

Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think most people have accepted the reality that v4 and v6
> will coexist for many years to come. But many of us think that
> if IPv4 ain't broke, we shouldn't fix it.

Brian, I seriously respect your work on IPv6.  You and the v6 pioneers
have saved the Internet from its success disaster of address exhaustion.
But here you are recommending a double standard:

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_standard

If IPv6 ain't broke, we shouldn't fix it either.

You're not suggesting that IPv6 is broken, nor am I.  Yet IPv6 continues
to be fixed.

IPv6 continues to be fixed by IETF -- and IPv4 doesn't.

Neither one is broken.

Both should evolve -- are evolving.  But not at IETF.

	John