Re: [Cerowrt-devel] Fwd: geeks, internet

2021-03-31 Thread David Lang
vid Lang On Wed, 31 Mar 2021, Karl Auerbach wrote: Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2021 09:55:45 -0700 From: Karl Auerbach To: Dave Taht , William Allen Simpson Cc: cerowrt-devel Subject: Re: [Cerowrt-devel] Fwd: geeks, internet 100mbits/second is to my mind rather inadequate.  It is surprising how cha

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] Fwd: geeks, internet

2021-03-31 Thread Karl Auerbach
100mbits/second is to my mind rather inadequate.  It is surprising how chatty my house is even in the wee hours in this era of IoT and massive software updates for phones, cars, and toasters. I have concern that policy is being made using a simple number ("bandwidth") to represent something

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] Fwd: geeks, internet

2021-03-31 Thread Dave Taht
It would be really nice if there was some string I could pull to get the senators behind this https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/03/100mbps-uploads-and-downloads-should-be-us-broadband-standard-senators-say/ to help morph this:

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] Fwd: geeks, internet

2021-03-31 Thread William Allen Simpson
Self-correction: Turns out that my mail archives had a previous post here 2 years ago mentioning internet-history, and the announcement on end2end-interest list back on Fri, 20 Jul 2001. But I'd never read either message. In retrospect, a sad mistake on my part. On 3/31/21 6:39 AM, William

Re: [Cerowrt-devel] Fwd: geeks, internet

2021-03-31 Thread William Allen Simpson
Thanks. I didn't know about the internet-history mailing list. If I survive my covid vaccination today, I'll join it. (My father died within 4 hours of his 1st Moderna dose.) Strongly agree with Karl Auerbach. I've had the opportunity of living with a (now former) Member of Congress for 20+

[Cerowrt-devel] Fwd: geeks, internet

2021-03-30 Thread Dave Taht
I note I really like the internet history mailing list. -- Forwarded message - From: Dave Täht Date: Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 7:50 PM Subject: geeks, internet To: - Forwarded message from the keyboard of geoff goodfellow via Internet-history - Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2020