From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from g4t3427.houston.hp.com (g4t3427.houston.hp.com [15.201.208.55]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.hp.com", Issuer "VeriSign Class 3 Secure Server CA - G3" (verified OK)) by huchra.bufferbloat.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 98EC521F3AC for ; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 16:31:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from g4t3433.houston.hp.com (g4t3433.houston.hp.com [16.210.25.219]) by g4t3427.houston.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6F8969 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 23:31:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [16.103.148.51] (tardy.usa.hp.com [16.103.148.51]) by g4t3433.houston.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A64C87C for ; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 23:31:25 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <550221CD.8030606@hp.com> Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 16:31:25 -0700 From: Rick Jones User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Bloat] marketing #102 - giving netperf-wrapper a better name? X-BeenThere: bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: General list for discussing Bufferbloat List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 23:31:55 -0000 On 03/12/2015 04:01 PM, Dave Taht wrote: > as netperf-wrapper has grown to include far more tests than netperf, > with quite a few more on their way, calling it this is increasingly > less appropriate: > > A noted cynic wrote me privately last month, about netperf-wrapper: > > 'why don't you rename the friggin thing "bufferbloat" or > "bloattest" or something? Netperf-wrapper is a terrible name, > seemingly still whatever the programmer called it when he wrote the > first sketchy version, one step up from "foo"' > > Hmm... we need a name with more foo, for sure, a better, more > descriptive name. Anyone got any ideas? Maybe run a contest somewhere? Well, not that I dislike the "netperf" name :) but I'll toss a few stripes onto the bikeshed: *) bloat-probe *) tortoise (ok, it is measuring bloat/latency not speed but still) *) BMI (Bloat Measurement Index/Investigator/Illuminator ?-) *) bloat-watcher *) bloat-finder *) bloated *) blubber *) Ahab rick > One (technical) hope would be to find a good file extension for the > output, so it could be more easily parsed by browsers... but to heck > with that... a better name? > > Toke had some ideas also: > > - NQT - http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/NQT - I especially like > "Not Quite There". nqt.org points to this: http://dyslexiafoundation.org/nqt/ > > - NetQual - http://www.qoesystems.com/NETQUAL.html > > - NQ-tester - doesn't seem to be taken by anything obvious > >