I'm lost for words. How does somebody get to the point of submitting a draft to the IETF, seemingly believing this is a new idea in 2017? Surely this must be trolling?

    "Each satellite holds routers connected to other routers on other satellites using fiber optic cables"

You'd need 265,000 km (164,600 miles) of fibre to loop around the geostationary arc!

Crank-o'meter goes to eleven!

But yeah, if it's this easy to submit drafts to IETF, how come they haven't drowned in spam already?

He has a lot of other proposals as well: http://khaledroutingprotocol.blogspot.ca/2017/03/khaled-rout...

Well, the idea is obviously flawed, but I don't think the author meant geostationary orbits.

Then it's much more flawed if it's for anything but geostationary orbits. The way it's written it sounds like he doesn't understand that geostationary satellites have to be high up in the equatorial plane as he mentions each satellite having a specific area.

What.

Also, interesting snippet near the end of that draft: "Each satellite is connected to an earth station which is connected to the Internet core network on earth." He thinks there's a single "Internet core network" (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/InternetIncorpora...)? No wonder he thinks it would be easy to forklift upgrade the whole Internet to his new protocol...