Starlink routing

[Michael Thomas <mike () mtcc com>]

I read in the Economist that the gen of starlink satellites will have 
the ability to route messages between each satellite. Would conventional 
routing protocols be up to such a challenge? Or would it have to be 
custom made for that problem? And since a lot of companies and countries 
are getting on that action, it seems like fertile ground for (bad) wheel 
reinvention?

Mike