Thanks for preparing the excerpt; this will be helpful for many use cases.
(For the WebPKI, as you already mention, we also need to consider SCTs and
realistically crappy networks.)

 "this is LTE in a city", and "this is what a poor-quality rural 3G link
> looks like". But alas, these don't seem to exist either.
>

Unfortunately, it will not be as simple as plugging in a single packet loss
number and then dropping that fraction of packets. Because TCP interpets
packet loss as congestion, it grinds down to a halt much earlier than at a
loss of 2%. Instead, lossy links such as WiFi and cellular have their own
retransmission protocols hidden from TCP.
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