Coming Monday, May 18th, 2015!
2nd Annual IPN Speakers Conference
Showcasing Delay & Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN): the Emerging Standard for Space Data Communications
Last year’s IPN speaking event—Space Technology Innovations: Enabling Exploration Above, Improving Life Below—presented how DTN can enable space data communications as well as provide network services in constrained terrestrial network environments. This year we are focusing upon DTN in the space arena. Our speakers include:
- Vint Cerf (Google VP, co-author of TCP-IP, one of the “fathers of the Internet—and IPN-ISOC board member) will provide an overview of InterPlanetary Networking.
- The NASA/Boeing team (Brett Willman & Suzanne Davidson) working on DTN aboard the International Space Station
- The NASA team (David Israel & Donald Cornwell) who concluded the very successful Lunar Laser Communication Demonstration in late 2013 and who are planning the 2017 Laser Relay Communication Demonstration.
- Scott Burleigh (JPL’s chief DTN architect) will be explaining recent significant enhancements to the ION DTN distribution (the distribution currently in use on ISS).
- Keith Scott leads the Consultative Consortium for Space Data Systems (CCSDS) DTN working group that is standardizing DTN protocols for use in civilian space missions. He will talk about the Bundle Protocol becoming one of the networking protocols being standardized for space communication as part of the Solar System Internet (the other is IP).
- Fred Templin of Boeing will demonstrate the delay-tolerant public key infrastructure system Scott Burleigh of JPL developed last year (“DTKA”—the Delay Tolerant Key Agreement). This is a potentially important new security enhancement to DTN.
- Scott Pace is the Director of the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University. He will be speaking about the increasing importance of space policies as more nation states engage and collaborate in space exploration.
Admission is free and breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack will be provided—but you MUST register to attend. Physical attendance is limited to 150 people. The event will be webcast on the Internet Society’s LiveStream channel and presentations will be available on YouTube for VOD streaming after the event.
The event starts at 9 a.m. Speakers conclude at 5:00 p.m. A beer and wine reception follows immediately after and concludes at 6 p.m.
Boeing is hosting our event at their Long Bridge facility at:
929 Long Bridge Drive, Arlington, VA, 22202
Building 95-929
Register at: our EventBrite registration site
Speaker bios can be viewed here.