@mike805 @jeffcliff @brewsterkahle Additionally, for such hostile environments high-latency store & forward networks are better suited than either #Tor or #I2P.

Unfortunately #AsynchronousCommunication generally gets shafted in people's prioritization & considerations, so there's much less work done on those at the moment.

#DTN #StoreAndForward #DelayTolerance #DelayTolerantNetworking

@dalias @DanielMicay I think you're more arguing about data consumption than bandwidth per se.

The vast majority of synchronous networking protocols account in exactly no way for data limitations.

That type of adverse condition is largely ignored in the design of basically everything other than #DelayTolerant #networking where limitations in #StoreAndForward nodes' storage (which is actively involved and limits data) and so data simply cannot be ignored.

#DTN #DTNs #AsynchronousCommunication

@ecliptik @w4v3 So both #UUCP and #FidoNet are not much used anymore. Both were big in the #1980s. Both were ways of exhcanging information over phone lines, but now run mostly over #Internet. Both are #asynchronous, #StoreAndForward systems. The idea being, to send a message from point A to point D, system A might call up system B, B calls up C, and C calls up D. So a message may take hours or days to get across, in the old times. 1/