On 3/25/2026 3:39 PM, Tony Li wrote:
There are only a handful of agencies. That is not the issue. The
real problem occurs because they are geographically dispersed and
would naturally get addresses from their local RIR. But when they use
them on the moon, for example, they would not aggregate at all. We
might easily expect one prefix per mission. Today, that’s not
seriously problematic, but in the future, this could definitely become
annoying.
Why do we need this level of separation ? Geolocation or something
similar would resolve this much easily. Creating a new stuff for such a
small and specific need doesn't seem useful. There are alternatives that
wouldn't involve all this.
Our job is not just to deal with the next few years, but to anticipate
and provide for the long term. i’d suggest that trying to plan 30 to
50 years into the future would be reasonable. With that perspective,
it is quite clear that recent decreases in the cost of launches has
agencies planning for a new Renaissance in space exploration, complete
with colonization by many vehicles and human beachheads, all fully
interconnected.
Still with the decrease of costs it is still quiet expensive to launch a
mission so I don't believe we would expect a significant number that
requires a totally different schema than we already have working and
well established with the current RIRs. It doesn't justify.
This is not going to be a major issue to any missions and to how
internet on earth communicate to missions outside it.
Fernando
Here are some links to some different visions of the future:
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/nterplanetary-Internet-Network-Concept-Credits-NASA_fig7_346016205
https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/lunanet_dtn_graphic_100521.png
https://i0.wp.com/spacenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/queqioa-constellation-V3-DSEL-2oct2023-AJ-SN-scaled.jpg?resize=1568%2C886&ssl=1
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https://www.researchgate.net/publication/366211910/figure/fig1/AS:11431281106938421@1670901461512/Reference-architecture-for-future-SpaceNets-EOSN-Earth-Orbit-Satellite-Network-SN.ppm
Cheers,
Tony
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