[arin-ppml] Draft Policy ARIN-2026-1: Taking IP To Other Planets (TIPTOP)

[Fernando Frediani]

On 3/25/2026 3:39 PM, Tony Li wrote:
>
> There are only a handful of agencies.  That is not the issue.  The 
> real problem occurs because they are geographically dispersed and 
> would naturally get addresses from their local RIR. But when they use 
> them on the moon, for example, they would not aggregate at all.   We 
> might easily expect one prefix per mission.  Today, that’s not 
> seriously problematic, but in the future, this could definitely become 
> annoying.

Why do we need this level of separation ? Geolocation or something 
similar would resolve this much easily. Creating a new stuff for such a 
small and specific need doesn't seem useful. There are alternatives that 
wouldn't involve all this.


>
> Our job is not just to deal with the next few years, but to anticipate 
> and provide for the long term.  i’d suggest that trying to plan 30 to 
> 50 years into the future would be reasonable.  With that perspective, 
> it is quite clear that recent decreases in the cost of launches has 
> agencies planning for a new Renaissance in space exploration, complete 
> with colonization by many vehicles and human beachheads, all fully 
> interconnected.

Still with the decrease of costs it is still quiet expensive to launch a 
mission so I don't believe we would expect a significant number that 
requires a totally different schema than we already have working and 
well established with the current RIRs. It doesn't justify.
This is not going to be a major issue to any missions and to how 
internet on earth communicate to missions outside it.

Fernando

>
> Here are some links to some different visions of the future:
>
> https://www.researchgate.net/figure/nterplanetary-Internet-Network-Concept-Credits-NASA_fig7_346016205
>
> https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/lunanet_dtn_graphic_100521.png
>
> https://i0.wp.com/spacenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/queqioa-constellation-V3-DSEL-2oct2023-AJ-SN-scaled.jpg?resize=1568%2C886&ssl=1 
> <https://i0.wp.com/spacenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/queqioa-constellation-V3-DSEL-2oct2023-AJ-SN-scaled.jpg?resize=1568%2C886&ssl=1>
>
> https://www.researchgate.net/publication/366211910/figure/fig1/AS:11431281106938421@1670901461512/Reference-architecture-for-future-SpaceNets-EOSN-Earth-Orbit-Satellite-Network-SN.ppm
>
> Cheers,
> Tony
>
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