Re: IPv8 anyone?
>Interplanetary networks have a totally different requirement to local networks
I assume you define "local networks" as earth-based. Remember the core Internet Protocol Suite was originally designed for use over low speed (by today's standards) WANs. It wasn't that long ago that using TCP/IP directly over satellite links was a poor use of the medium and protocols and gateways were developed that better supported this environment, yet I still communicated with some system at the other end of a (9600 baud) satellite link using its unique IPv4 address.
So don't see why Internet addressing can't allow for Interplanetary networking consistent with the unique end-to-end connectivity principles that many that complain about NAT espouse. Just don't expect to be able to use FTP et al.
Digressing, if we ever really get quantum computers then I suspect we will also have quantum networks...
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