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The International Space Station has become home to the first node in the "interplanetary internet". The Delay Tolerant Networking (DTN) system uses "store-and-forward techniques within the network in order to compensate for intermittent link connectivity". As NASA explained during ground-based simulation tests last year, DTN " …
ping iss
Pinging iss.space.notverylocal [192.168.1.1] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time>1week TTL=fuhgeddaboutit
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time>1week TTL=fuhgeddaboutit
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time>1week TTL=fuhgeddaboutit
Reply from 192.168.1.1: bytes=32 time>1week TTL=fuhgeddaboutit
Ping statistics for 192.168.1.1:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss) ?
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If you will send me your name, address and banking details I would like to transfer the money elsewhere, via your account. For your trouble, I am willing to pay you 3.5 million Flabs, which at the current rate of exchange is worth something in the region of $2million.
If you are unable to participate in this transaction, maybe you'd be interested in our special, patented treatment to elongate your Fnoop-gland.
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With bestest greetings
GroL
Might be needing some new TLDs here...
iss.space
nasahq.earth.space
Then again maybe those are too short-sighted?
iss.near-earth-orbit.sol.milkyway.univ
Don't even get me started on parallel dimensions...
As well as the naming issues, we'll start running short of IPv6 addresses eventually and will have to roll out IPv8 in order to keep going!
@Pete 2: see icon ;)
back in the day when usenet ruled the world (i.e. late 80s) there was a tradition of various spoof official announcements being posted on Apr 1 ... I feel sure I remember one (but last time this subject came up I was unable to locate it in googles archive) which was an RFC (request for comments - the way new internet ideas/protocols were developed then by peer review/comment) on a proposal to add an extra level of domain name to allow for the net to expand to other planets (and their moons via sub-domains) in the solar system.
Like any good satellite constellation (system), you will need several to provide uniform coverage over the globe... Might I suggest:
Caroline (of course and thanks!), Sherman, Hillary, Rosen, Valenti, Glickman, Murren, Grey, Wagner, Plank, Lynton, Stringer, Lynne, and Eisner to start?
I second that.
And add I'm quite looking forward to the host of nodes stretching from here to Mars enabling effective comms with our new colony. (Ok maybe optimistic but the parts are coming together)
Sometimes, just sometimes you get the small feeling that the future really is just around the corner.