folks,
our current plan is NOT to try to extend a single address space
across the solar system. We plan to confine address spaces to
planets, satellites, space vehicles and the backbone Internet -
but each address space is independent. We plan to use something
akin to the domain name system for interplanetary-wide references.
It's a little more complex than that, but in any case we concluded
that trying to extend the end/end ADDRESS paradigm across the
distances of the solar system were unrealistic.
The design team is working on a spec it will look forward to sharing
with anyone interested.
vint
At 04:59 PM 8/10/2000 +0200, Steven Cotton wrote:
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Barathy, RamaSubramaniam wrote:
Soon we need to have the interplanetary ip address allocation methods
even for our planet (The work of Vinton cerf & colleagues in NASA) for
so many devices popping up.
This brings up some more problems I don't even want to start thinking
about. Yet.
--
steven
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