Decades from now, the story of IPv6 will be a cautionary tale about the danger of ignoring incentives when enhancing open standards.

So much of the spec seems to have been designed in an idealist vacuum that the promoters are blind to its own failures. The addresses are ugly and impossible to memorize but that shouldn't matter because... There are no performance advantages but that was out of scope because... There are few security advantages because that wasn't a core goal because...

I'm not saying that we should give up on IPv6. But we should acknowledge that its slow adoption is entirely due to a standard that was poorly designed for the real needs of critical stakeholders and poorly marketed to everyone else.