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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/25/2026 3:39 PM, Tony Li wrote:<br>
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<div>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
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<p>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.</p>
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<div>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
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<p>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.<br>
This is not going to be a major issue to any missions and to how
internet on earth communicate to missions outside it.</p>
<p>Fernando</p>
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<div>Here are some links to some different visions of the future:</div>
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href="https://www.researchgate.net/figure/nterplanetary-Internet-Network-Concept-Credits-NASA_fig7_346016205"
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href="https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/lunanet_dtn_graphic_100521.png"
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<div style="display: block;"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/366211910/figure/fig1/AS:11431281106938421@1670901461512/Reference-architecture-for-future-SpaceNets-EOSN-Earth-Orbit-Satellite-Network-SN.ppm">https://www.researchgate.net/publication/366211910/figure/fig1/AS:11431281106938421@1670901461512/Reference-architecture-for-future-SpaceNets-EOSN-Earth-Orbit-Satellite-Network-SN.ppm</a></div>
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<div style="display: block;">Cheers,</div>
<div style="display: block;">Tony</div>
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