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<font color="#0000FF">At 01:11 PM 3/24/2004, Ed Greenberg wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>I guess term Ultra-light is
relative. In small aircraft it is about the size of a VW. In
comparison to IPv6 anything is smal</font>l. </blockquote><br>
Ed: agreed - but my point is that you should be saying that to Gorry
Fairhurst, not to me. Do you think that we are the only people in the
world who would like to see efficient use of space links? The choice to
use IP or not will depend on mission requirements, but maybe there are
some folks out there in DVB-S land who would like to use IP but who would
equally well like to see a "Mega-lite" encapsulation mechanism.
We ought to at least explore the possibility before we go off and build
our own.<br><br>
By the way, does anyone know if the commercial guys like Avtec, who build
CCSDS link equipment, have been invited to join this proposed BOF? Before
we bugger around with the space link protocols, we should be consulting
the people who have invested serious money in the current
infrastucture.<br><br>
///adrian<br>
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