<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 11:56 AM, Roger Jørgensen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rogerj@gmail.com" target="_blank">rogerj@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">
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</span>Are work being done in several forums on interplanetary communication,<br>
both with thoughts on delay and on address space. AFAIK some of it is<br>
already in production to using IPv6... wish my memory worked today so<br>
I could remember where I saw that discussion :-(<br><br></blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div>In the more immediate future, I think the main concern will be IOT-related. (IOT = Internet of Things)</div><div><br></div><div>While this is a bit of a lame buzzword now, something on the scale of what Manfred Macx et al have in the early chapters of Charles Stross's Accelerando, may very well be how things work in a couple of decades. It's hard to predict.</div><div><br></div><div>In any case, what's most important to us now, is to at least be aware of the potential challenges, and not enact policies that will make the future much more difficult.</div><div><br></div><div>And, again, I don't think the proposal discussed here poses such a problem.</div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Jan</div>
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