<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_default"></div><div class="gmail_default">This is just starting. The absolute cutting edge of Internet development, It's fascinating to to learn how engineers are resolving the inherent difficulties in sending packets over immense distances. Like all space research it will likely have important spin off earthbound applications. Vint is on first.</div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><u></u><div style="direction:ltr;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;color:#666666;text-align:center;margin:0px;padding:0px;background:#dddddd"><table style="width:100%;background:#dddddd" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#DDDDDD"><tbody><tr><td><span style="display:none!important"> joly posted: "On Thursday May 14 and Friday May 15 2015 the  Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs(SIPA) and the Global Commission on Internet Governance (GCIG) will present the Conference on Internet Governance and Cyber-Security at Columbia U" </span><table style="width:100%;padding:10px" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tbody><tr><td><div style="direction:ltr;max-width:600px;margin:0px auto;overflow:hidden"><table style="width:100%;text-align:left;max-width:1024px;min-width:320px;margin:0px auto;background-color:#ffffff" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#ffffff"><tbody><tr><td><table style="width:100%;height:8px;background-color:#43a4d0" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><table style="width:100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="20" bgcolor="#ffffff"><tbody><tr><td><p style="margin:0.7em 0px;padding:0px;color:#555555;line-height:18.2000007629395px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#3478e3" href="https://livestream.com/internetsociety/IPN-ISOC-2" tabindex="-1"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-7779" style="border: 1px solid #eeeeee; float: right; padding: 2px; margin: 0px 0px 2px 7px; display: block; clear: none; vertical-align: top; max-width: 98%; height: auto;" src="http://i2.wp.com/isoc-ny.org/p2/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/ipnsig2_170x255.png?resize=170%2C255" alt="ipnsig" width="170" height="255"></a>Today <strong>Monday May 18 2015</strong> the Internet Society’s <strong><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#3478e3" href="http://ipnsig.org/" tabindex="-1">InterPlanetary Networking Special Interest Group</a></strong> (IPNSIG) will hold its <strong><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#3478e3" href="http://ipnsig.org/2015/05/14/agenda-for-ipn-conference-may-18th/" tabindex="-1">2nd Annual InterPlanetary Networking Conference</a></strong> in Washington DC. The conference has the theme<strong>Showcasing Delay & Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN): the Emerging Standard for Space Data Communications</strong>. Last year’s <a style="text-decoration:none;color:#3478e3" href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4buVHalBRoPhqHKMBOU2yqPLtaN5vfKC" tabindex="-1">conference</a> —<strong>Space Technology Innovations: Enabling Exploration Above, Improving Life Below</strong>—presented how DTN can enable space data communications as well as provide network services in constrained terrestrial network environments. This year the focus is upon DTN in the space arena. Speakers include <strong>Vint Cerf</strong>,<strong>Brett Willman & Suzanne Davidson</strong> – the NASA/Boeing team working on DTN aboard the International Space Station, <strong>David Israel & Donald Cornwell</strong> the NASA team who concluded the very successful Lunar Laser Communication Demonstration in late 2013 and who are planning the 2017 Laser Relay Communication Demonstration, <b>Scott Burleigh</b>, JPL’s chief DTN architect, <strong>Keith Scott</strong> who leads the Consultative Consortium for Space Data Systems (CCSDS) DTN working group that is standardizing DTN protocols, <b>Fred Templin</b> of Boeing who will demonstrate a potentially important new security enhancement to DTN, and <strong>Scott Pace</strong>, the Director of the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University. The conference will be webcast live on the <strong><a style="text-decoration:none;color:#3478e3" href="https://livestream.com/internetsociety/IPN-ISOC-2" tabindex="-1">Internet Society Livestream Channel</a></strong>.</p><p style="margin:0.7em 0px;padding:0px;color:#555555;line-height:18.2000007629395px;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><strong>What: <a style="text-decoration:none;color:#3478e3" href="http://ipnsig.org/2015/05/14/agenda-for-ipn-conference-may-18th/" tabindex="-1">2nd Annual InterPlanetary Networking Conference</a><br>Where: Long Bridge, Arlington, VA<br>When: Monday May 18 2015 9am-5pm EDT | 13:00-21:00 UTC<br>Agenda: <a style="text-decoration:none;color:#3478e3" href="http://ipnsig.org/2015/05/14/agenda-for-ipn-conference-may-18th/" tabindex="-1">http://ipnsig.org/2015/05/14/agenda-for-ipn-conference-may-18th/</a><br>Webcast: <a style="text-decoration:none;color:#3478e3" href="https://livestream.com/internetsociety/IPN-ISOC-2" tabindex="-1">https://livestream.com/internetsociety/IPN-ISOC-2</a><br>Twitter: <a style="text-decoration:none;color:#3478e3" href="https://twitter.com/search?q=ipnsig&src=typd&vertical=default&f=tweets" tabindex="-1">@ipnsig</a></strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><table style="width:100%;text-align:left;border-top-width:1px;border-top-style:solid;border-top-color:#dddddd;background-color:#efefef" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="20" bgcolor="#efefef"><tbody><tr><td style="border-top-width:1px;border-top-style:solid;border-top-color:#f3f3f3;color:#888888;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;background:#efefef"><p style="direction:ltr;color:#444444;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:1.4em;margin:0px 0px 10px"> </p><p style="direction:ltr;color:#444444;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:1.4em;margin:0px"> </p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;display:inline"><strong>​Permalink</strong></div><br><a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="http://isoc-ny.org/p2/7767" tabindex="-1">http://isoc-ny.org/p2/7778<br clear="all"><div><br></div></a><font face="yw-b3b03f93acb29dde874548d979c14638352bd06e-6a7229cd2d43707847ecba167295e3cc-3709868-tom" style></font></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div><img src="https://t.yesware.com/t/b3b03f93acb29dde874548d979c14638352bd06e/6a7229cd2d43707847ecba167295e3cc/spacer.gif" style="border:0; width:0; height:0; overflow:hidden;" width="0" height="0"><img src="http://t.yesware.com/t/b3b03f93acb29dde874548d979c14638352bd06e/6a7229cd2d43707847ecba167295e3cc/spacer.gif" style="border:0; width:0; height:0; overflow:hidden;" width="0" height="0"></div>