In 2006, I did a summer internship at NASA implementing the Bundle protocol [1]. It assumes intermittent connectivity and/or large delays between transfers. For

In 2006, I did a summer internship at NASA implementing the Bundle protocol [1]. It assumes intermittent connectivity and/or large delays between transfers. For example, you have intermittent line-of-sight between Mars and a tracking station on earth or line-of-sight between a rover and an orbiter on the far side of Mars that will at some point in the future relay the data onto Earth. I can't find it in the RFC, but using it to provide internet to rural villages was definitely discussed. [1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5050 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5050