Internet Set to Go into Outer space !

After expanding across the Earth, the Internet is set to spread into outer space to reach parts no network has gone before, one of its co-creators predicted recently.

Google’s vice president and chief internet evangelist , Mr. Vinton Cerf said the proposed "interplanetary" Internet would allow people the ability "to access information and to control experiments taking place far away" from the Earth.

Expanding into the solar system would bring new rules and regulations too, he told an annual Seoul forum, saying he and other experts were working on a set of standards designed to guide space-era Internet communications.

"Finally, the Internet can take us where no network has gone before," said Mr. Cerf.

He said he and a team of engineers at the California based Jet Propulsion Laboratory would complete a key part of the project – establishing standards for space communications.

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