[Chapter-delegates] Alternate ways to provide network services to remote regions...

[Michael Snell]

Dear colleagues,

There has been a lot of interest in Google's Project Loon on this mailing
list. You might be interested in an article I just posted to the
InterPlanetary Networking Special Interest Group's (IPNSIG) website, which
talks about a proposed network of nano-satellites (called CubeSats),
working in conjunction with Delay & Disruption Tolerant Networking
protocols (DTN) to deliver basic network services to essentially all
populated regions of the earth.

DTN was developed by Vint Cerf and a group of researchers from the Jet
Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to overcome the limitations of TCP/IP networks
in operating over interplanetary distances. This work started in the late
1990's and has resulted in a number of RFC's being published. That work has
been further developed by the Delay & Disruption Tolerant Networking Group
(DTNRG) working under the auspices of the Internet Research Task Force
(IRTF). Although originally designed to deal with the constraints of space
communications, DTN has many useful terrestrial applications.

The article with links to a paper written by Scott Burleigh (NASA/JPL) and
Edward Birrane of the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins
University can be found at:

http://ipnsig.org/2013/06/21/dtn-cubesats-low-cost-reliable-network-services-to-remote-regions/

Best regards,

Mike Snell
President, San Francisco Bay Area ISOC
Secretray/Treasurer, IPNSIG
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