http://spaceops2012.com/proceedings/documents/id1275505-Paper-001.pdf Chinese Lunar missions Chang’E-1 and Chang’E-2 and the ESOC support: an example of systems interoperability G. Billig, E. Sørensen, European Space Operations Centre, Darmstadt Xi Luhua Beijing Aerospace Control Centre, Beijing CCSDS has a legacy lock on the space domain. The SLE space link extension is a TCP tunnel carrying link frames across the intenet for processing; doesn't work well at high rates. Lloyd Wood http://sat-net.com/L.Wood/dtn/interplanetary-internet.html ________________________________________ From: ietf [ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Richardson [mcr+ietf@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 15 December 2013 00:33 To: ietf@xxxxxxxx Subject: Chang'E 3 The rover landing is rather exciting. I'm wondering what the communication(s) protocol back to earth is. (I'm hoping the answer will be MPTCP over IPv6 w/IPsec... ) -- Michael Richardson <mcr+IETF@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Sandelman Software Works -= IPv6 IoT consulting for hire =-