  A careful analysis of the experimental data on deep-inelastic scattering
(DIS) by themselves, upon extending standard DGLAP evolution into the low-$x$,
low-$Q^2$ domain including the frequent 1.9 GeV$^2$ starting scale for
evolution, reveals inconsistency between the evolution prediction and the
experimental results. It is futile to fit experimental data at a low-$Q^2$
input scale by unmodified standard evolution. Our result is supported by recent
discussions in the literature on the unsatisfactory status of standard fits to
the experimental data. The color dipole picture (CDP) quantitatively provides
the magnitude of the deviation of standard evolution in the low-$x$, low $Q^2$
domain from experiment.
