Cloudflare Inc. (NET  ) CTO Dane Knecht proposed that his company and Space Exploration Technologies Corp.'s (SPCX  ) Starlink jointly rethink a core layer of internet networking for low-Earth-orbit satellites, prompting Elon Musk to send the idea to Starlink's team. Cloudflare CTO Targets LEO Congestion Control Challenge

"Bandwidth is half of it. Most congestion control still assumes a stable path and a stable RTT. LEO is neither," Knecht wrote in an X post on Monday. "Area needs innovation all the way down the stack. @Cloudflare and @Starlink should be building that together."

Musk replied, "Sent your