Re: Satellites running IP

[Daniel Shell <[e-mail]>]

Adrian

CISCO is not interested in SCPS at this time.
NASA/JPL needs to approach the IETF to make it standard.
So far that has not happened.




At 01:04 PM 6/18/2002, Adrian J. Hooke wrote:
>At 08:25 AM 6/18/2002 -0400, Daniel Shell wrote:
>>Is SCPS an IETF RFC on a standards track yet?
>
>Dan:
>
>Could you perhaps ask your question a bit more precisely? Which of the 
>four SCPS protocols would you suggest should be launched on an IETF 
>standards track?
>
>If you are talking about the SCPS flavor of TCP (TCP Tranquility), in what 
>context do you ask the question? TCP running between two ground end 
>systems over a satellite link, or TCP running from a ground end system to 
>an end system onboard a satellite?
>
>If the latter, what would be the benefit to you of IETF standardization of 
>TCP Tranquility? If it was on a standards track, would CISCO Systems Gobal 
>[sic] Defense and Space Group then be interested in investing corporate 
>funds to build a bunch of COTS products to support space missions?
>
>Best regards
>
>Adrian J. Hooke
>Manager, DOD-NASA Space Communications Protocol Standards (SCPS) Project
>NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
>Interplanetary Network Directorate
>M/S 303-400, 4800 Oak Grove Drive
>Pasadena, California 91109-8099, USA
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>http://www.scps.org
>

Dan Shell
Network Architect
CISCO Systems
Gobal Defense and Space Group
Wireless/Mobile Networking/ Satellite
216 643 2422