[kazinator]

> Current and future work builds on IPv6, making it better for every purpose than the old protocol.

Not for purposes like:

* I want the IP header I'm transmitting between these two nodes to be as small as possible

* I want a CPU and memory efficient TCP/IP stack for an embedded system.

Pretty much no successor of anything is better than its predecessor for "every purpose", just every purpose that the speaker happens to care about.

[virtuallynathan]

IPv6 headers should be easier to parse than IPv4.

[wmf]

What's your opinion of 6LoWPAN?