IPv6 Finally gets off the ground

Tue Apr 10 01:09:57 UTC 2007

On Apr 9, 2007, at 12:04 AM, Joel Jaeggli wrote:

>
> J. Oquendo wrote:
>> "On Thursday, 29 March 2007, a Cisco Systems router, flying
>> in low Earth Orbit onboard the UK-DMC satellite built by
>> Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL), was successfully
>> configured by NASA Glenn Research Center to use IPsec and
>> IPv6 technologies in space."
>>
>> http://www.dmcii.com/news.htm
>>
>> Its good to know that IPv6 is finally being used along
>> with encryption! Albeit in outer space, maybe one day we
>> could all catch up with this "out of this world"
>> technology that people could now claim is "light years"
>> ahead of us.
>
> I'm looking forward to a future where pc104/isa bus based routers  
> figure
> prominently in the ip core!

Have recently checked the weight requirements for core routers?   
Seriously heavy lift capacity launch vehicles would be required...  
not to mention the drag encountered in LEO would likely also be  
considerable and not yield good uptime.

Best regards,
Christian