Vint Cerf Talks About The "Interplanetary Internet"

Uncle Humph1 writes "There's an interesting article at NewsForge by Robin (Roblimo)Miller about Vint Cerf giving a presentation to NOVALUG about the Interplanetary Internet and having lunch with them afterward. An interesting read. One of the quotables by Vint with regard to security reads 'We're building in security from end to end,' he says, 'because we don't need headlines saying, '15-year-old takes over Mars.'" Here is some more information about the interplanetary Internet.

Comments

Already done?

[Rainier Wolfecastle]

Well, accoring to this one documentary I saw, TCP/IP is already in use on at least one other planet.

Interplanetary Internet means....

[Kenja]

Interplanetary Internet means intergalactic porn. The triple breasted whore of eroticon six will have her poor web server slashdoted.

FTL Communications

[sam_handelman]

FTL Travel is probably never going to be a reality - meaning all those green alien women will just have to pine away for Captain K's hot man love.

However, FTL Communications are probably possible, so we can hope that our overweight, velour wearing descendents might at least talk dirty with some green alien women.

Of course, based on today's internet, those green alien women would probably be fat, balding green alien men and green alien FBI agents on green alien sting missions against the sexually deviant human race.

Unfortunately, this proposed FTL method requires you to ship the quantum-coupled-er...thingies from place to place FIRST, which means we'd have to exchange ambassadors with the green aliens FIRST... meaning Captain K is back in the shag house, big time.

And then, the quantum communications might be a bit, well, odd, as you might recieve cryptic messages like this:

Reply from 68.179.57.159: qubits = 256 95% confidence -11fs<time<-4fs, measured from point of transmission, 95% confidence -14fs<time<-6fs, measured from point of reception.

Which is a reply to the following command:

Pinging hotbabes.co.vulcan [68.179.57.159] with 256 qubits of data.

Which you had not yet actually run. Anyone want to suggest changes to TCP/IP that would allow you to handle when acks arrived before the message they acknowledge has been sent? Just asking.

Re:FTL Communications

[Dreamweaver]

If you have, adjust the window as appropriate and don't send the packet

Naughty, naughty. Still need to send the packet or you generate a causality loop. You already received the response for the packet you're about to send, you see. If you don't send it, then what was the response to?

It's bad enough having inexperienced coders leaving memory leaks and infinite loops lying around; now we'll have reality leaks and causal loops to watch out for, too. "Woops, I forgot a semicolon and now French people speak German..."