Re: RFC 6921 on Design Considerations for Faster-Than-Light (FTL) Communication

Delete
>The communication times don't change if at least one communicator is not
> moving in light speed.

AB> I meant the communication times MAY change if at least one
communicator is moving in light speed.

On 4/2/13, Abdussalam Baryun <abdussalambaryun@gmail.com> wrote:
> RFC6921>It is well known that as we approach the speed of light, time
> slows down.
> AB> I know that time slows for something when it is in speed of light,
> but communication is not something moving. If the packet is in speed
> of light we may reduce the comm-delay but never less than zero. The
> communication times don't change if at least one communicator is not
> moving in light speed.
>
> My comment is that I think this RFC is not logical, and I don't
> understand its recommendations. There is no way that a packet can be
> received before send, packet-time never changes communicators-time
> while the positions of both Tx and Rx are semi-fixed (change is
> relative to communicators' times not their signal). I think the
> communication-times may change when the communicators are at/above
> speed of light not the signal/packet. Is my physics correct?
>
> AB
>
> On 4/1/13, rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org <rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org> wrote:
>> A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries.
>>
>>
>>         RFC 6921
>>
>>         Title:      Design Considerations for Faster-Than-Light (FTL)
>>                     Communication
>>         Author:     R. Hinden
>>         Status:     Informational
>>         Stream:     Independent
>>         Date:       1 April 2013
>>         Mailbox:    bob.hinden@gmail.com
>>         Pages:      7
>>         Characters: 15100
>>         Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:   None
>>
>>         I-D Tag:    draft-hinden-FTL-design-considerations-00.txt
>>
>>         URL:        http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6921.txt
>>
>> We are approaching the time when we will be able to communicate
>> faster than the speed of light.  It is well known that as we approach
>> the speed of light, time slows down.  Logically, it is reasonable to
>> assume that as we go faster than the speed of light, time will
>> reverse.  The major consequence of this for Internet protocols is
>> that packets will arrive before they are sent.  This will have a
>> major impact on the way we design Internet protocols.  This paper
>> outlines some of the issues and suggests some directions for
>> additional analysis of these issues.
>>
>>
>> INFORMATIONAL: This memo provides information for the Internet community.
>> It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of
>> this memo is unlimited.
>>
>> This announcement is sent to the IETF-Announce and rfc-dist lists.
>> To subscribe or unsubscribe, see
>>   http://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
>>   http://mailman.rfc-editor.org/mailman/listinfo/rfc-dist
>>
>> For searching the RFC series, see
>> http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfcsearch.html.
>> For downloading RFCs, see http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc.html.
>>
>> Requests for special distribution should be addressed to either the
>> author of the RFC in question, or to rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org.  Unless
>> specifically noted otherwise on the RFC itself, all RFCs are for
>> unlimited distribution.
>>
>>
>> The RFC Editor Team
>> Association Management Solutions, LLC
>>
>>
>>
>