I think the issue there isn't IP but TCP. IP is purely an addressing and routing solution. It doesn't care about partitions or outages or intermittent connectiv

I think the issue there isn't IP but TCP. IP is purely an addressing and routing solution. It doesn't care about partitions or outages or intermittent connectivity. TCP does care about that as a protocol but you could envision and in fact there are other protocols that do handle these things over the top of IP.