[e2e] where end-to-end ends

[Christian Tschudin]

A new Internet-Draft on the "Interplanetary Internet" was recently
published in which the authors (Cerf et al) predict where the end of
end-to-end is:

  "We have concluded that the standard Internet protocols should be 
   essentially "terminated" at the Interplanetary Gateways [...]"

and not surprisingly they opt for an active networking approach ;-)

  "But because of the enormous round-trip delays, such systems must work
   very indirectly. For example, to steer the Mars Pathfinder rover, one
   sends instructions about intermediate points that the robot must steer
   past."

Just some synectic readings.
christian.

Ref:
  draft-irtf-ipnrg-arch-00.txt (May 2001)

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S-75105 Uppsala, Sweden. <tschudin at docs.uu.se>, http://www.docs.uu.se/~tschudin