Vint Cerf Preps Interplanetary Internet Protocol 177
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.'"
More work to be done (Score:5, Funny)
I assume then that at some point someone will have to write up a new RFC on "IP Over Space-Avian Carrier"?
Re:Caching would be great here too (Score:5, Funny)
Bold (Crazy) Prediction (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe not, but wouldn't it be crazy if it was?
Re:Caching would be great here too (Score:2, Funny)
I'd like to put a few people in space, sans suit.
Excellent (Score:3, Funny)
Now we'll be able to send e-mail to Dr Edgar Mitchell's aliens and ask them if they exist !
In related news ... (Score:5, Funny)
Interplanetary ICMP (Score:2, Funny)
~$ 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
~$
Re:A new area awaiting patentification (Score:5, Funny)
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
Re:A new area awaiting patentification (Score:3, Funny)
in space... (Score:4, Funny)
in space, no one can hear you ping.
Also appropriate for station wagon full of tapes? (Score:5, Funny)
Interstellar networking (Score:3, Funny)
Re:KA9Q (Score:3, Funny)
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.
Re:Interplanetary ICMP (Score:2, Funny)
Man I wish I could afford a faster than light connection like you... Here I am stuck on a legacy electromagnetic link:
~$ ping voyager2.heliopause.net
PING voyager2.heliopause.net (207.46.193.254) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from (207.46.193.254): icmp_seq=1 ttl=54 time=72877083.5 ms
64 bytes from (207.46.193.254): icmp_seq=2 ttl=54 time=72877853 ms
64 bytes from (207.46.193.254): icmp_seq=3 ttl=54 time=72979083.2 ms
64 bytes from (207.46.193.254): icmp_seq=4 ttl=54 time=72877483.6 ms
64 bytes from (207.46.193.254): icmp_seq=5 ttl=54 time=72897053.8 ms
--- voyager2.heliopause.net ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 364508557ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 72877083/72901711/72897054/72901711 ms
It took me over 4 days just to run that!
Virus Uploads still allowed? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:From TFA (Score:1, Funny)
What about a man-in-the-moon-in-the-middle attack?