Spaced Out on the Interplanetary Internet

My latest article for TheFeature.com is online. It's about the Interplanetary Internet, NASA's effort to extend cyberspace into outerspace. TCP/IP co-inventor Vint Cerf is one of the project leaders. I hadn't heard much about InterPlanet since it was first announced in 1998, so I was surprised to find out that their open source architecture code had recently been publicly released. A ".mars" address is still quite a few years off, but the latest InterPlaNet research may have applications on Earth-based connectivity as well. Link