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Interplanetary Internet about as Useful as Flying Pigs says Vint Cerf

posted by cmn32480 on Saturday May 30 2015, @01:45PM   Printer-friendly
from the watch-out-for-the-spaceballs dept.

AnonTechie writes:

Boffins [Scientists] that want to see Internet protocols extend to outer space – the so-called “Interplanetary Internet” – need to prove they're offering something useful, according to one of the father-figures of the Earth-bound Internet.

Vint Cerf, who has taken an interest in beyond-Earth applications for the Internet protocol stack since the 1990s, told last week's InterPlanetary Networking SIG (IPNSIG) meeting that to get beyond a mere curiosity, the SIG needs to be useful.

“Our challenge, to the extent that we're interested in serious expansion of communications capability for space exploration, is to demonstrate its utility,” Cerf told the gathering.

“It's not that anyone thinks that you should just build this interplanetary thing and hope that somebody uses it,” he added.

One possibility, for example, is that spacecraft that support these kinds of protocols could, having fulfilled their primary mission, have a longer economically-useful life if they can then become nodes in the interplanetary backbone.

And there's no doubt that there'll be a lot more data being flung around in space: last year, for example, the success of NASA's LADEE broadband experiment showed that free space optics could cook along at hundreds of megabits a second without an atmosphere to get in the way.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/05/27/interplanetary_network_sig/

IPNSIG presentations and videos: http://ipnsig.org/2015/05/26/speaker-presentation-materials-2015/

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  • (Score: 2) by mendax on Saturday May 30 2015, @07:09PM

    by mendax (2840) on Saturday May 30 2015, @07:09PM (#190193)

    ... if you are craving bacon or a yummy pork steak.

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  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Saturday May 30 2015, @11:01PM

    by kaszz (4211) on Saturday May 30 2015, @11:01PM (#190243) Journal

    I have reliable sources telling me that flying pork pigs is the best weapon against those ISIS ;-)

    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by mendax on Sunday May 31 2015, @02:09AM

      by mendax (2840) on Sunday May 31 2015, @02:09AM (#190283)

      Ah, a good point. However, I have a better idea. Instead of dropping bombs on them, we should be using crop dusting planes to spray pig's blood over their installations. Bacon grease might work even better, especially in the summer. The delicious smell of that unclean pork product should drive them mad!

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      • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Sunday May 31 2015, @04:38PM

        by kaszz (4211) on Sunday May 31 2015, @04:38PM (#190427) Journal

        But what if they start licking all their own installations? that would give them more food..

        • (Score: 2) by mendax on Monday June 01 2015, @10:09PM

          by mendax (2840) on Monday June 01 2015, @10:09PM (#190910)

          That will be beneficial. Those who don't lick the grease will then shoot the lickers because they are no longer religiously clean.

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