Inter-planetary internet... How do you play a game when few of the players are on Mars?
How do you even reconcile time between locations that far apart? Syncing your system clock with an off-planet NTP server will be.. problematic.
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#32Cheap reliable last mile internet. The core and edge is solved.
Around 37 percent of the world's population (2.9 billion people) have never used the Internet (1 in 3 people), per the UN’s 2021 report on the topic.
https://www.itu.int/en/mediacentre/Pages/PR-2021-11-29-Facts...
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#33I’m very excited about the challenges explored in the SCION project and recommend having a look at their site and papers https://scion-architecture.net/
they've been at this for many years now without any traction at all. all they can point to are some collaborations with 2 Swiss based ISP's and a start-up spun out of the university. They seem to be utterly lacking in business acumen, or willingness to engage with the business community which is surprising considering the momentum they could have had if they tried. I've filed this as failed already 2 years ago.
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#34If/when interactive VR experiences go mainstream, network latency will have to be much better--not the average but rather the p99.99 latency. Having an immersive 90-120+ fps world stall/stutter routinely makes it unlivable.
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#35I’m very excited about the challenges explored in the SCION project and recommend having a look at their site and papers https://scion-architecture.net/
I’m very skeptical about “blank slate” approaches such as this. Can you tell me what the advantages are? From a glance I see two big downsides already:
- Tightly coupled components unlike the extremely modular design of TCP/IP means that further innovation will probably be difficult.
- The design seems to mandate source routing, where the entire path needs to be known by the sender. This is much less resilient than the current internet where each hop decides how to best get a packet to its route.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ping of 30 minutes
Turn-based strategies.
Yep. 30 minutes is super-fast compared to play-by-mail!
Re: Ask HN: What are the next internet infra problems?
#37Provable identity. Yes, you can do Oauth via the google or the facebook but sooner or later we need something that isn't tied to getting all your user interaction data ...
Digital notary. So a third person (digitally) signing a transaction or other document exchange.
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#38Low carbon footprint datacenters, but it requires better software performance. Law of Wirth explains that.
Ability to do SDR for wireless networks with smarphones. 5G is not a good solution.
Better security for routers, and generally better software security regulations, which are almost non existent right now. If cars have security regulations, software should, too.
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#39Provable identity. Yes, you can do Oauth via the google or the facebook but sooner or later we need something that isn't tied to getting all your user interaction data ... Digital notary. So a third person (digitally) signing a transaction or other document exchange.
Could you expand on both of those? They sound really interesting but I'm not sure I understand the issues or use cases.
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#40Re-writing all the software, in short. It is all a steaming pile of garbage.
What programming language is "short"?