An Interplanetary Internet?

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I have probably read a couple of thousand science fiction books and none of them, I think, dealt with how to actually have an Interplanetary Internet!  One of the founding fathers of our current internet, Vint Cerf is working on that!

But extending the internet to space isn’t just a matter of installing Wi-Fi on rockets. Scientists have novel obstacles to contend with: The distances involved are astronomical, and planets move around, potentially blocking signals. Anyone on Earth who wants to send a message to someone or something on another planet must contend with often-disrupted communication paths.

“We started doing the math for the [internet standards] which had worked perfectly well here on Earth. However, the speed of light was too slow,” Cerf said of his early work with colleagues in the InterPlanetary Networking Special Interest Group. Overcoming that problem would be a major undertaking, but this American computer scientist and former Stanford professor is used to helping make big things happen.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/vint-cerfs-plan-for-building-an-internet-in-space-20201021/

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Resetting the router would take on an entirely different level of complexity!