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Internet preparing to go into outer space
Seoul: After expanding across Earth, the Internet is
now set to spread into outer space to reach parts no
network has gone before, one of its co-creators
predicted yesterday.
Vinton Cerf said the proposed interplanetary Internet
would allow people an ability to access information
and to control experiments taking place far
away from Earth.
Expanding into the solar system would bring new rules
and regulations too, he told an annual Seoul forum,
saying he and other experts were working on a
set of standards designed to guide space-era Internet
communications.
Finally, the Internet can take us where no network
has gone before, said Cerf, who is Googles vice
president and chief internet evangelist.
He said, he and a team of engineers at the
California-based Jet Propulsion laboratory would
complete a key part of the project establishing
standards
for space communications like those for Internet in
three years.
Cerf told a separate news conference that new
standards were needed because of the huge distances
and time delays involved in communication across
space.
He went on, This effort is now bearing fruit and is
on track to be space qualified and standardised in the
2010 time frame.
Eventually we will accumulate an interplanetary
backbone to assist robotic and manned missions with
robust communication.
Cerf, seen as a founding father of the Internet with
Robert Kahn, marveled at its explosive growth in the
last decade, saying it was a trend that would
continue.
Agencies
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