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Vint Cerf Preps Interplanetary Internet Protocol
TechFiends32 writes "After years of working with NASA to bring Internet connectivity to deep space, scientists say Vint Cerf's efforts may be nearing completion. To combat the apparent challenges of extending the Internet into space (such as meteors and weighty, high-powered antennas), Cerf and others have made significant efforts, like adjusting satellite-based IP, and working on delay-tolerant networking (DTN) to address pure IP's limitations in space. According to principal engineer at The Mitre Corp., Keith Scott, 'The 2010 goal is designed to bring DTN to a sufficient level of maturity to incorporate it into designs for robotic and human lunar exploration.'"
I assume then that at some point someone will have to write up a new RFC on "IP Over Space-Avian Carrier"?
The enemies of Democracy are
aw, shit. now goatcx will be trolled into outer space, giving a new meaning to the term black hole.
This will be in wider use in 30 years than IPv6
Maybe not, but wouldn't it be crazy if it was?
If you can read this... 01110101 01110010 00100000 01100001 00100000 01100111 01100101 01100101 01101011
I'd like to put a few people in space, sans suit.
0xB315AA8D852DCD3F3DCA578FD2E0BF88
Now we'll be able to send e-mail to Dr Edgar Mitchell's aliens and ask them if they exist !
Unicode killed the ASCII-art *
... Comcast moves to block P2P (planet to planet) traffic.
Have gnu, will travel.
~$ traceroute voyager2.heliopause.net
traceroute to voyager2.heliopause.net (207.46.193.254), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 192.168.0.15 (192.168.0.15) 0.180 ms 0.186 ms 0.205 ms
2 netblock.dslcarrier.com (66.159.218.1) 14.379 ms 17.076 ms 20.048 ms
3 satrptr.spacenet.net (66.51.203.33) 36.531 ms 45.014 ms 42.245 ms
4 mars.spacenet.net (206.223.143.41) 92.229 ms 101.596 ms 99.575 ms
5 jupiter.spacenet.net (216.239.43.12) 220.073 ms 266.554 ms 254.288 ms
6 saturn.spacenet.net (209.85.253.178) 880.760 ms 854.294 ms 878.981 ms
7 uranus.goatse.net (209.85.251.94) 1233.954 ms 1332.028 ms 1315.059 ms
8 neptune.spacenet.net (74.125.19.104) 1703.205 ms 1721.652 ms 1733.635 ms
9 pluto.spacenet.net (73.113.43.11) 2301.311 ms 2435.201 ms 2448.221 ms
10 * * *
11 asteriodb3221.microsoft.com (207.46.191.230) 3411.411 ms 3813.153 ms 3761.314 ms
12 voyager2.heliopause.net (207.46.193.254) 7810.134 ms 7956.324 ms 8103.132 ms
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Just disrupt the deflector shield with a tachyon burst.
Citizens of Earth,
It has come to our attention that an earthling called Vint Cerf is making unauthorized use of our work in violation of GPTO (Galactic Patents and Trademarks Office) patent number 0932984720392837409 for Interplanetary Internet Protocol.
We demand that he must immediately cease the use and distribution of our work and that he forwards all copies and relevant documentation to us by the earliest space courier. Failure to do so will result in a lawsuit to the amount of our estimated damages of 1,008,076,123.09 galactic credits (equal to 0.0008 USD).
Very truly yours,
Aliens
P.S Greetings, Dr Mitchell
Negative moral value of force outweighs the positive value of good intentions.
They must have had a 1000 years of space-Bush presidency.
I read the internet for the articles.
in space, no one can hear you ping.
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway." -- Andrew S. Tanenbaem, Computer Networks, 4th Ed. p. 91
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
Interstellar networking: putting the Ether in Ethernet.
Phil Karn's old KA9Q implementation of TCP (for amateur radio) was designed to accommodate very long delays.
Only because it takes such a long time to tap out IP packets in morse code.
Will this extension of IP still allow virus uploads to alien ships via MacBooks?
What about a man-in-the-moon-in-the-middle attack?