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

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 maxwell demon on Sunday May 31 2015, @06:23AM

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Sunday May 31 2015, @06:23AM (#190344) Journal

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  • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Sunday May 31 2015, @09:25AM

    by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Sunday May 31 2015, @09:25AM (#190364) Journal
    We have been using the blockquote to mark out quotations from the original source since the site started. The clue is in the name. The link to the original article is just below the quotation. Single sentences can use " ..quotation..", anything larger requires a blockquote.
  • (Score: 2) by martyb on Sunday May 31 2015, @03:05PM

    by martyb (76) Subscriber Badge on Sunday May 31 2015, @03:05PM (#190414) Journal

    Add editorial remarks in square brackets in order to make the reader aware that the bracketed stuff is not part of the direct quote

    Oops! "(Scientists)" has been changed to "[Scientists]" — thanks for holding us to the highest standards.

    Heh. I think I just replied to a grammar boffin!

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