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It will probably have its own satellite network that serves as the Mars internet, with a high-latency intermittent bridge to the Earth internet. https://en.wik
by tntn 9y ago
It will probably have its own satellite network that serves as the Mars internet, with a high-latency intermittent bridge to the Earth internet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Internet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Internet
- robin_reala 9y agoWhere high-latency is a ping of somewhere between 364,000ms and 2,684,000ms depending on the date.
- jlebrech 9y agoon Mars a NAS is must have.
- mixmax 9y agoTcp seems like a really bad protocol for this.
- aaomidi 9y agoThere already is a bunch of RFCs in place for high latency protocols.
- robin_reala 9y agoFamously RFC1149: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1149 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1149 . I suspect that wouldn’t fly in an interplanetary scenario though.
- shabble 9y agoI think https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1217 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1217 might be more appropriate, and even touches on the relevant topic in section 5(e).