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Vint Cerf Plugs Android Into Interplanetary Net

Posted by kdawson on from the hot-dead-birds dept.

Several readers sent in an update on DTN, the interplanetary Internet protocol that Vint Cerf has been working on for many years (and we have been discussing for nearly as long). The news now is that Cerf has added a DTN stack to the open source Android code, seeing uses in mobile applications for a protocol that does not assume a continuous connection.

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  1. Synergy by AlecC · · Score: 5, Insightful

    See? Space research does have spinoffs for everyday life. If we weren't trying to get to Mars, we wouldn't have this useful protocol for Earthside use.

    Double NASA's budget at once.

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