Re: Starlink --- "simpler than IPv6"

Alexandre Petrescu <alexandre.petrescu@gmail.com> Tue, 20 October 2020 10:58 UTC

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Subject: Re: Starlink --- "simpler than IPv6"
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Le 19/10/2020 à 21:17, Behcet Sarikaya a écrit :
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> 
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 11:12 AM Alexandre Petrescu 
> <alexandre.petrescu@gmail.com <mailto:alexandre.petrescu@gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     Le 19/10/2020 à 17:58, Behcet Sarikaya a écrit :
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>      >
>      > On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 10:20 AM Templin (US), Fred L
>      > <Fred.L.Templin@boeing.com <mailto:Fred.L.Templin@boeing.com>
>     <mailto:Fred.L.Templin@boeing.com <mailto:Fred.L.Templin@boeing.com>>>
>      > wrote:
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>      > Seems like an “IPv6-over-foo” document might be in order; anyone care
>      > to____
>      >
>      > join me on that?____
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>      >
>      > IPv6-over-foo on Starlink section would look like
>      >
>      > TBD until more is revealed
> 
>     One in USA could look at the regulator's public database and find which
>     frequency channel is allocated for Tesla for Starlink. 
> 
> 
> 
> It is 12GHz
> 
>      From that, one
>     could find which encoders are available on that frequency.  From that
>     one could find which protocols are on it.  It makes for a 'foo' in 'IPv6
>     over foo'.  The link layer.
> 
> 
> I don't know how to do these?

One would ask the ATN email list of IETF, to find which protocol runs on 
Starlink satellite links?  Or maybe which protocol runs on typical cheap 
data on satellite links?  Because there was already a draft posted there 
about links for aeronautics draft-maeurer-raw-ldacs-04
One would also ask the email list of the DRIP WG of IETF because that 
involves drones around air traffic control, which might depend 
peripherally on satellite data links.

One would check the user guides of devices implementing data 
communications on satellite links.  It's true that the name of a device 
is somehow difficult to find.

An old example is Q4000 made by Quake Global.  It is an old device that 
I studied about 10 years ago.  It uses RS-232 over the satellite link. 
That would be the 'encoder'.  That means one could put Serial Line 
Internet Protocol (SLIP) on it.   IPv6 works ok over SLIP, even though 
there is no RFC for it.  One might take advantage of the situation to 
write one.  The user manual of that device is at 
https://fccid.io/PB596XXCS/User-Manual/Datasheet-Q4000-1626630

Another device is Gateworks' current modem for Iridium, the "GW16130 
Mini-PCIe Satellite Modem - Datasheet".  It is at 1.6GHz (not 12GHz). 
That mentions 'UART' which again is an 'encoder' to me.  Among the 
features it says 'Supports E-mail messages or HTTP POST'.  That means it 
might support IP.  It also says 'Max Message payload: 340 bytes upload, 
270 bytes download'.  That means if one wants to put IPv6 minimum MTU 
1280 bytes then one might need to implement IPv6 Fragmentation extension 
headers.

During these searches I found that maybe SpaceX launched devices for 
Iridium in the past, so it might be that current Starlink are acting a 
little bit like Iridium, or so.

But it is all speculations.

Alex

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> Behcet
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>     Alex
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>      > Fred____
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>      > *From:*Behcet Sarikaya [mailto:sarikaya2012@gmail.com
>     <mailto:sarikaya2012@gmail.com>
>      > <mailto:sarikaya2012@gmail.com <mailto:sarikaya2012@gmail.com>>]
>     *Sent:* Monday, October 19, 2020
>      > 8:14 AM *To:* Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ca
>     <mailto:mcr@sandelman.ca>
>      > <mailto:mcr@sandelman.ca <mailto:mcr@sandelman.ca>>>; 6man WG
>     <ipv6@ietf.org <mailto:ipv6@ietf.org>
>      > <mailto:ipv6@ietf.org <mailto:ipv6@ietf.org>>> *Cc:* Templin
>     (US), Fred L
>      > <Fred.L.Templin@boeing.com <mailto:Fred.L.Templin@boeing.com>
>     <mailto:Fred.L.Templin@boeing.com <mailto:Fred.L.Templin@boeing.com>>>
>      > *Subject:* Re: Starlink --- "simpler than IPv6"____
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>      > Thanks Michael, I'd like to know as much as possible how IPv6 works
>      > in Starlink.____
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>      > Behcet____
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>      >
>      > On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 3:47 PM Michael Richardson
>     <mcr@sandelman.ca <mailto:mcr@sandelman.ca>
>      > <mailto:mcr@sandelman.ca <mailto:mcr@sandelman.ca>>> wrote:____
>      >
>      > Anyone read anything more specific about what Starlink is doing that
>      > is "simpler than IPv6"?
>      >
>      > I'd sure like to know that it permits end-terminal to end-terminal
>      > communicatons without a trip through a data center.
>      >
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