[ih] Internet without entrenched factions?

[Scott Bradner]

> On May 15, 2026, at 2:35 AM, Ole Troan via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
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> Back to history. IPv6 should have had identifier/locator split from the start. I wasn’t there, but I understood it was close with Mike O’Dell’s 8+8 and GSE proposals? Anyone who can shed more light on what happened and why that path was not chosen?

as I recall, the message I got back from Beth meeting where Mike discussed the proposal was that it broke multicast but at the time, I thought that the underlying reason
was closer to Brian's "too hard" (i.e. required too much thinking)

Scott