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Vint Cerf's Disruption-Tolerant Networking
An anonymous reader writes "Net pioneer, Vint Cerf, talked this week about the space internet (the Interplanetary
Internet), and an interesting 1994 April Fool's email he
penned as a Request for Comment [1607]. The thread involves a reverse time
capsule from the year 2023, but covers Cerf's side interests in Shakespeare.
Since 2004 marks the 30th anniversary of publication of the first paper
on the Internet, his views on the future
of the net and Interplanetary
Internet seem to have morphed somewhat into delay and disruption tolerant
networking because of high demand for videoconferencing, Voice-Over IP, and multimedia."
This brings up an interesting step in the path towards trying to settle Mars... would it be a smart idea to have communciations satellites orbiting Mars before we send the first humans?
The current set of satellites provide communication links between the landers and Earth.