2025 IPNSIG Board of Directors Elections
January 16 (5:00 pm Eastern Time)​
How to Benefit Today from Future Interplanetary Internet Infrastructure: Why and How to Join IPNSIG's Operational Network
Samo Grasic, Pilot Projects Working Group Lead, IPNSIG
How can the Interplanetary Internet help us solve terrestrial networking challenges today? This keynote explores the Delay and Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN) architecture—originally designed to handle vast distances, disruptions, and celestial mechanics in space communications—and shows why its principles apply equally well here on Earth. We will dive into the key DTN characteristics that make it robust, reliable, and resilient, and examine concrete examples of DTN’s benefits for terrestrial use cases.
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In addition, we will share insights from IPNSIG’s Project Working Group, which is building a global, operational DTN network built by a collaborative community of stakeholders. Attendees will learn about the group’s past and present efforts, including lessons learned and the practical challenges encountered in establishing an open, interoperable environment. By the end of this talk, you will see how investing in future interplanetary infrastructure creates opportunities for innovation today—and how you can join the Project Working Group to help shape the evolution of DTN across both Earth and beyond.
Samo Grasic is the initiator of LateLab AB, a company specializing in custom solutions based on Delay Tolerant Networks (DTN). He completed his PhD focusing on opportunistic routing in DTN and has since applied these techniques to communication-challenged areas, including real-time ice thickness measurement and LoRa-based sensor networks. Since 2016, Samo has worked with reindeer herders in northern Sweden to design and develop the Nomatrack LoRa-DTN platform, tailored for remote Arctic environments. He is currently leading the IPNSIG Project Working Group, which aims to build a global operational DTN network.
IPNSIG was founded in 1998 by Vint Cerf and researchers within academia and NASA/JPL. We are now a full Chapter within the Internet Society, known as the Interplanetary Chapter. We work to extend terrestrial networking into solar system space, which is consistent with the Internet Society’s objectives to grow the internet to unpopulated areas, and connect the unconnected domain—and to ensure that even in space, “The Internet is for Everyone”.
Read about our strategy toward a solar system Internet for humanity
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OUR VISION
Expand networking to interplanetary space,
for the benefit of humanity
CREATING
VISION
Create a common vision for an Interplanetary Network with stakeholders
NARRATIVE AND ROADMAP
Shape the future of an Interplanetary Network by presenting a narrative and roadmap
PROMOTION OF TECHNOLOGY
Promote and increase the maturity of DTN Technology through use in terrestrial and space application