[ipv6-wg] Have we failed as IPv6 Working Group?

On Sat, Oct 05, 2019 at 06:31:25PM +0000, Michel Py wrote:
> > Sander Steffann wrote :
> > I must say I have had enough of your snarky remarks. They are very
> > unproductive and do not contribute to this working group in any way.
> > Please refrain from posting unless you have something to contribute
> > please.
> 
> Then unsubscribe me. What is very unproductive is the last twenty
> years you have failed to make IPv6 the prevalent protocol. That's half
> one's career, and you will spend the other half failing again.  Great
> job. An entire career failing. Employers like people who achieve
> goals. Good luck.

Michel, many of us are frustrated with the current state of affairs (for
different reasons, however that isn't relevant). This frustration, those
rage knots in your stomache, don't mean we should permit ourselves to
submit unfiltered bitterness into each other's mailboxes. 

If the IPv4 vs IPv6 tussle is interpreted as a culture war, I think by
now all sides are thoroughly confused and have no idea what is going on.
Is this still part of a long game? Are we at a tipping point, just one
final barrier, or wasting our breath? It is really hard to tell at
times. I say "all sides" because there are more than 2 factions. There
are people who like neither IPv4 or IPv6, or just one of the two.

In this landscape there are quite some folks have staked their careers
on either one of the address families, and even such circumstances we
should be careful to avoid rhetoric devices like ad-hominem. Once
deployed you immediately lost whatever debate was going on. In such
instances it may be time to take a break.

There are folks who have genuine belief systems in which they consider
spending half of their career an absolute necessity towards some their
personal higher goal. A friend recently told me "there's a thin line
between passion and madness". In such a situation, the best I hope for,
is that all sides at least acknowledge the possiblity that they
themselves were the ones spending energy in a counter-productive
direction.

Before hitting "send" it is always good to consider what other
interpretations of the email-being-replied-to are possible, consider
what the author may have meant to say, and how your reply will affect
them and the other readers.

So, either strive to be excellent to each other, or refrain from
posting.

Kind regards,

Job