OpenMobileSummit Internet founding father cum Google evangelist Vint Cerf is working to bring his interplanetary interwebs protocol to mobile networks here on earth.

In 1998, working in tandem with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the (co-)father of the seminal TCP protocol launched an effort to create an “interplanetary extension to the internet.” Initially, the team tried to make this work with the good ol’ TCP/IP protocol, but Cerf and crew soon realized that this was a non-starter.