If you're getting downvoted and can't work out why, that XKCD is massively overused and shoehorned into conversations that have no bearing on what's being discussed.

The whole '15 competing standards' meme only really makes sense when there are 15 competing standards bodies. In the case of IP addresses, there is only one standards body, the IETF. There is one legacy standard (IPv4), one new standard (IPv6), and the only question is how best to ease the transition between the two. I see no problem if that transition relies on an interim protocol.

If only we didn't have multiple competing transitional mechanisms defined as standards already.

You're suggesting there are networking standards that compete with IPv4/IPv6? What are those standards?

There's like 4 (?) different IPv4/v6 integration systems. None of which worked the last time I fiddled with some of them.

Which would suggest there's room for an integration system that does work. In any case, the goal is a transition to IPv6, as long as the integration systems all share that goal there can be interoperability between them.

Win some, lose some. In hindsight it was pretty shoehorned in.