RE: Satellites running IP

William Ivancic <wivancic@grc.nasa.gov> Wed, 19 June 2002 17:29 UTC

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At 09:14 AM 6/19/02 -0700, brian.smith@Honeywell.com wrote:
>Adrian,
>The niche for these gateways is so small that I don't see a driving need for
>a standard.  However, better yet would be if there was a way for all common
>stacks (read Windows, etc.) to "detect" a long latency link and tune
>themselves appropriately, so gateways were not required.

There is lots of research being done in this area, but nothing is yet 
proven and tested in the sufficiently open networks to then take these to 
standards.  Most are still very much research.  I expect this will come in 
the future - maybe 3 to 5 years.  However, it is not here today.

Will

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