It would of course be very nice to have the budget to do a press release once in a while. But we had to do a bake sale to run the last one.
On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 9:12 AM Jonathan Foulkes <j...@jonathanfoulkes.com> wrote: > > Perhaps that is our problem? We are hallucinating and disconnected from > reality? > > > Don’t think so, I have plenty of data points that prove it exists on hundreds > and hundreds of ISPs, with more added daily. > > And some of the commenters seem to want to insult Jim Gettys, too, by name, > saying that he "got it wrong". > > > Yes, that particularly pissed me off. Many of the folks involved in fixing > this issue are under-recognized. > > Might I suggest some PR, like a press release on major releases of key > components, such as Cake, or when OpenWrt drops a major point release that > ingrates new bloat-mitigation features. Since OpenWrt 21.x is about to drop, > the draft should circulate in the coming weeks. > > Cheers, > > Jonathan Foulkes > > On Feb 9, 2021, at 3:45 PM, David P. Reed <dpr...@deepplum.com> wrote: > > Hmmm... good post, I guess. But aren't WiFi 6 and StarLink being built by > people who have proved their genius by being billionaires? > > > > It's sad, though, to read through the comments. There's a whole 'nother world > out there now. > Apparently the world of commenters are largely convinced bufferbloat doesn't > exist, and never did. > > > > Perhaps that is our problem? We are hallucinating and disconnected from > reality? > > > > I constantly hear that IETF attendees don't believe it is a problem. And > folks like Andy Bechtolsheim get loads of VC money to create Ethernet 10+ > GigE switches that are full of buffers, therefore creating lots of lag under > load in datacenters where they buy this gear because Andy is famous. AndyB's > company even produce white papers that claim more buffers improves > performance by keeping all the links running at wirespeed (the hell with > latency). > > > > And some of the commenters seem to want to insult Jim Gettys, too, by name, > saying that he "got it wrong". > > > > I've concluded that COVID-19 reflects a general infection of brains with some > kind of arrogant ignorance, including many of the folks who get boondoggles > from their company to attend IETF. > > > > But it may be the opposite, after all. Maybe we folks don't understand what > is true in this real Bizarro World, and bufferbloat is a hoax like COVID. Q > is probably right, and we are probably all pederasts like Hillary Clinton. > > > > > > On Monday, February 8, 2021 8:45pm, "Dave Taht" <dave.t...@gmail.com> said: > > > https://www.cringely.com/2021/02/04/2021-prediction-4-wifi-6-is-a-bust-for-now-as-bufferbloat-returns-thanks-to-isp-greed/ > > > > > > -- > > "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public > > relations, for Mother Nature cannot be fooled" - Richard Feynman > > > > d...@taht.net <Dave Täht> CTO, TekLibre, LLC Tel: 1-831-435-0729 > > _______________________________________________ > > Cerowrt-devel mailing list > > cerowrt-de...@lists.bufferbloat.net > > https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/cerowrt-devel > > > _______________________________________________ > Bloat mailing list > Bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net > https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/bloat > > -- "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Mother Nature cannot be fooled" - Richard Feynman d...@taht.net <Dave Täht> CTO, TekLibre, LLC Tel: 1-831-435-0729 _______________________________________________ Bloat mailing list Bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/bloat
