alt Hacker News> Most people using Android will come to your home and ask "do you have WiFi here?"
The Android implementation of IPv6 completely boggles my mind. They have completely refused to implemented DHCPv6 since 2012:
* https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/36949085
But months after client-side DHCP-PD was made an RFC they're implementing that?
* https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/09/simplifyin...
In what universe does implementing DHCP-PD but not 'regular' DHCPv6 make any kind of sense?
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lxgr • today at 7:15 AM
Their reasoning seems to be that it enables use cases like a smartphone delegating v6 addresses to wearables etc.
Which is fine, I guess, but still doesn’t explain their refusal to implement regular DHCPv6 for so long.
>In what universe does implementing DHCP-PD but not 'regular' DHCPv6 make any kind of sense?
Their policy makes a lot of sense. It's hindering ipv6 deployment, but it is preventing ISPs from allocating less than /64 to customers. It has nothing to do with standards actually.
Dhcp-pd makes a lot of sense though, because if an isp is willing to give you a prefix, they are by default nice guys.