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Tcp seems like a really bad protocol for this.

There already is a bunch of RFCs in place for high latency protocols.

Famously RFC1149: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1149 . I suspect that wouldn’t fly in an interplanetary scenario though.

I think https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1217 might be more appropriate, and even touches on the relevant topic in section 5(e).