SpaceX Starlink is now its own ASN and present at the Seattle Internet Exchange

Re:SpaceX Starlink is now its own ASN and present at the Sea... by dahfizz on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @09:46PM (#23411416)

And just like NAT with IPv4, we will use hacks to get around implementing a proper solution for decades (and counting).

With satellite internet taking off, and actual interest in extraterrestrial colonies from e.g. NASA and SpaceX, I think we need a proper space communication protocol. Maybe it can all be solved in L2, but I think we will soon be looking at 255 hops the way we look at the limited address space of v4.

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Re:SpaceX Starlink is now its own ASN and present at the Sea... by nitrogen on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @09:54PM (#23411462)

It seems people are working on this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Internet

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Re:SpaceX Starlink is now its own ASN and present at the Sea... by AdrianoKF on Thursday June 04, 2020 @05:32AM (#23414485)

Interesting (but probably not too surprising) to see that DTN research is alive and kicking!

I wrote a short seminar paper on DTN protocols as an undergrad in '09, so thanks for the trip down memory lane!

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Re:SpaceX Starlink is now its own ASN and present at the Sea... by rmdashrfstar on Thursday June 04, 2020 @02:04AM (#23413110)

Thanks for posting this, reading about all the progress made with delay tolerant networking is exciting!

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