Olivia A-CI probably won't be alive to see it, but I can't wait to see how they handle IP addresses if we were to add another world to the internet. Like, does Luna get its own IPv8 block by some future convention? The sheer quantity of lag demands being able to know where the address goes geo- solar-graphically.
PJB
Autumn Meadow@LivInTheLookingGlass
Let's limit to IPv4 for simplicity.
Instead of x.x.x.x, we would start with an orbital code for planets, major and minor. Earth would be 300 representing the third major orbit from the sun. Luna would be 310. If Luna had her own moon, it would be 311. Big, smaller, smallest.
Interestingly, Jupiter would not be 500. That would be assigned to the asteroid belt as the fifth major orbital zone. The Jupiter System would be 600. So Europa would be 660.
A local network on Europa would be 660.192.168.0.1, to give an example of formatting.