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Web pages fast! Just when you think you've got cyberspace almost
figured out, some wise guys come up with a proposal to make it a
lot more complicated. Take, for example, the people behind
InterPlanetary Internet. Comprising researchers from JPL, MITRE
Corporation, SPARTA, Global Science and Technology, and
consultants from USC/ISI, UCLA and CalTech, the IPN study aims
to investigate how current Internet protocols may be extended in
order to explore deep space. But, to begin at the beginning,
consider this. It has taken approximately thirty years for the
Internet to become what it is today: a revolutionary mode of
telecommunication. During this period of time, while some of us
have been busy exploring the present, a small group has been
more avant garde, looking at possibilities of taking this
successful network beyond Earth's limited boundaries. From that
humble concept, things started shifting into high gear early in
the nineties, initiating the