On Tue, 8 Feb 2022 at 12:20, Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote: > > On 2/7/22 4:27 PM, Greg Ewing wrote: > > On 8/02/22 8:51 am, Chris Angelico wrote: > > >> Some day, we'll have people on Mars. They won't have TCP connections - > >> at least, not unless servers start supporting connection timeouts > >> measured in minutes or hours - but it wouldn't surprise me if some > >> sort of caching proxy system is deployed. > > > > Or the internet acquires a new protocol that's designed > > for very-long-latency connections. > > RocketNet -- a massive store-and-forward protocol. ;-) >
Definitely possible. Though wouldn't a rocket scientist call it "store-and-prograde"? :) ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
