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## Difference between Waku and Whisper
XXX: Add this in section above or here? In-line? How much emphasize?
Summary of main differences between Waku v0 spec and Whisper v6, as described in EIP-627:
Highlight spec and stuff
- Handshake/Status message not compatible with shh/6 nodes; specifying options as association list
- Include topic-interest in Status handshake
- Upgradability policy
- `topic-interest` packet code
- RLPx subprotocol is changed from shh/6 to waku/0.
- Light node capability is added.
- Optional rate limiting is added.
- Status packet has following additional parameters: light-node, confirmations-enabled and rate-limits
- Mail Server and Mail Client functionality is now part of the specification.
- P2P Message packet contains a list of envelopes instead of a single envelope.
## Next steps and future plans