On 24 Jul 2010 at 5:29, Tim O'Reilly wrote:
> hmmm, looks like we'll have to roughen up and backwards design some
> of our comms and such if we ever really to break out into space -
> you're right the tight sync that servers, datanets etc are used to
> today are just not going to hack it, going to have to incorporate
> some (a lot?) of 1950-80s tech to let systems work...
Well, both usenet and Fidonet protocols could handle a lot of it
easily. Both deal with things like messages passed thru multiple
links often with long lag times between them.
> at the moment would play hob with our secure coms, datanets etc cause they
> all want to be tightly synced. OTOH Even the older systems secure coms
> relied on having round-trip handshaking going on in fractioins of a second
> ... trying to set that up for a relatively long haul - seconds - minutes
> hmmm not old tech, have to be new cause of that.
I remember when I had to give explicit routing for my email, and a
turnaround time (time from sending to receiving reply) of under a
week was considered reasonable.
...!tektronix!reed!percival!leonard was my first email address. It
reads as "from a well connected host send to tektronix. Tektronix
will forward to reed. redd will forward to percival. Percival will
deliver to user leonard"
The sender had to patch in the path from their site to tektronix (or
reed or percival) to replace the "..." part of the path.
There are already RFCs out there for extending the Internet to other
planets.
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Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)
shadow at shadowgard dot com