alt Hacker NewsI'm pretty underwhelmed by IPv6. It looks like the typical "horse designed by committee."
I suspect that what will actually end up being implemented, will be a core subset of the spec.
We'll have to see what's still standing, when the dust settles.
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db48x • yesterday at 10:01 PM
Your computer, and every other computer on the planet, already supports the entire IPv6 spec. There is no subset.
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The IPv6 spec looks long because it also includes protocols that are separate on IPv4 (DHCP/SLAAC, NDP, depending on the document ICMPv6, mirroring DHCP, ARP, ICMP, NetBIOS, etc.), as well as the addressing schemes that were different RFCs in IPv4 such as multicast/unicast/network classes/subnets.
As for the implementation: just about anything more powerful than an ESP32 has the entire protocol implemented and running already.