Greg Ewing <greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz> writes: 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. Very much a hot topic: https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/heo/scan/engineering/technology/disruption_tolerant_networking_overview https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay-tolerant_networking https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4838 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5050 -- Alan Bawden -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
