Re: Starlink routing

[Masataka Ohta <mohta () necom830 hpcl titech ac jp>]

Jorge Amodio wrote:

> We are in the process of starting a new Working Group at IETF, Timer
> Variant Routing or TVR.
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/group/tvr/about/
>
> Some of the uses cases are for space applications where you can predict or
> schedule the availability and capacity of "links" (radio, optical)

Even though the current routing protocols have no difficulty
to treat unpredictable/unscheduled changes on links?

> This gets sort of merged with DTN (Delay/Disruption Tolerant Networking.)

I have been saying that DTN is a reinvention of UUNET.

As such, it should be noted that, in UUNET, availability of
phone links between computers was scheduled.

                                        Masataka Ohta