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Also from the same author: Satellite Internet [0] [0] https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-omar-si-00 https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-omar-si-00

• stephen_g 9y ago
  I'm lost for words. How does somebody get to the point of submitting a draft to the IETF, seemingly believing this is a new idea in 2017? Surely this must be trolling? "Each satellite holds routers connected to other routers on other satellites using fiber optic cables" You'd need 265,000 km (164,600 miles) of fibre to loop around the geostationary arc!
  • jabl 9y ago
    Crank-o'meter goes to eleven! But yeah, if it's this easy to submit drafts to IETF, how come they haven't drowned in spam already?
    • bhouston 9y ago
      He has a lot of other proposals as well: http://khaledroutingprotocol.blogspot.ca/2017/03/khaled-routing-protocol-krp.html http://khaledroutingprotocol.blogspot.ca/2017/03/khaled-rout...
  • leni536 9y ago
    Well, the idea is obviously flawed, but I don't think the author meant geostationary orbits.
    • MertsA 9y ago
      Then it's much more flawed if it's for anything but geostationary orbits. The way it's written it sounds like he doesn't understand that geostationary satellites have to be high up in the equatorial plane as he mentions each satellite having a specific area.
• cesarb 9y ago
  What. Also, interesting snippet near the end of that draft: "Each satellite is connected to an earth station which is connected to the Internet core network on earth." He thinks there's a single "Internet core network" (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/InternetIncorporated http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/InternetIncorpora...)? No wonder he thinks it would be easy to forklift upgrade the whole Internet to his new protocol...