Comment The wave of the future (Score 1) 287
There are actually several implementations of IPv6 for very low power, embedded devices. Arch Rock (www.archrock.com) has developed a commercial implementation. At Berkeley, we've developed open-source hardware (http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~prabal/projects/epic/) and software (ttp://smote.cs.berkeley.edu:8000/tracenv/wiki/b6loWPAN) for low power IPv6 networking. Both the Arch Rock and Berkeley stacks support robust multi-hop IPv6 routing to support a large number of devices.