Fascinating talk from Marc Blanchet! He had way more content than time, and questions ran over time too. It seems to me there’s appetite for a much longer presentation on the current state of research and engineering in this space.
IP stacks for space applications have some interesting constraints. For example, the worst case RTT for a functioning link can be measured in weeks! Two weeks, in the case of Earth↔️Mars, which happens every two years when we’re on opposite sides of Sol.
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