Talk:Delay Tolerant Networking

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I'm thinking about giving this article a makeover, and, in doing so, giving it a name change to the more commonly accepted name of "Disruption Tolerant Networking" rather than the current "Delay Tolerant Networking" ("delay" was used mainly when the field only looked at deep-space communication, but now the problem is more general). Is there any objections to this change before I make it and change all the pages that point here? Utopianheaven (talk) 19:40, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Objection. Disruption actually induces a different kind of delay before the link comes up again. 'delay tolerant' is widely used - look at the IRTF DTNRG group as an example, while 'disruption tolerant' was created to sell the idea to DARPA; the term is used more in military contexts, and Disruption-Tolerant Networking redirects here. (The name should actually be 'Delay-Tolerant Networking', hyphenating related adjectives.) When looking at deep-space comms this was known as the Interplanetary Internet. Lloyd Wood (talk) 13:13, 6 March 2008 (UTC)

Unless we are talking about a specific network, the proper name is "Delay–tolerant network", which I propose we rename this article to. --Adoniscik^{(t, c)} 05:47, 9 May 2008 (UTC)