> I found out about this mailing list today.
>
> It's uncannily similar to something I've been wondering about for the
> past few weeks... namely the behaviour of TCP/IP in extreme
> conditions. The meaning of "extreme" I've been playing with was at the
> level of having routers in orbit around the various planets and moons
> of the solar system, and other nodes moving about at various speeds,
> at distances from the Sun up to about the distance the Voyagers will
> reach in 20 to 30 years. On the face of it, this mailing list sounded
> like it might cover much of the same ground: low bandwidth, extreme
> variation in round-trip times, very high error rates and delays.
> (Stevens says TCP defaults to regarding 9 minutes as failure, which
> wouldn't even get you to Mars. Presumably you could recompile with
> upper limits in the multi-hour range, for the sake of argument.)
sounds like you'd be interested in:
-gabriel
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