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From: d@taht.net (Dave Täht)
To: Eric Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
Cc: bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net
Subject: Re: [Bloat] Letter to CACM?
Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2011 09:14:39 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vd0xf8cw.fsf@cruithne.co.teklibre.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110206154236.64AF720C22E@snark.thyrsus.com> (Eric Raymond's message of "Sun, 6 Feb 2011 10:42:36 -0500 (EST)")

Eric Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com> writes:

>
> They had a useful suggestion.  They think we ought to ship the overview
> as a letter to CACM.  "Everybody gets that," they pointed out.

I don't but paper had a hard way of getting to me for the last 4 years.

> Yeah, I can see it.  Getty, J., Raymond, E.S., Taht, D.  "Packet Loss
> Considered Helpful"  OK, I kid about the title.

I think the title is expressive, snarky, revolutionary, chock full of
wonderful historical references, and people will "get it".

:)

I do feel that focusing on the desirability of packet loss, alone, would
have a marvelously focusing effect on a letter.

The wireless side is a quagmire that I hope to get to writing about
semi-coherently today. 

> Should I put this shipping to CACM my to-do list for when the overview
> is done?  Jim, especially looking for your judgment; you'd be the
> obvious designee for lead author even if the alphabetical order didn't
> fall that way.

How to crack the economist?

-- 
Dave Taht
http://nex-6.taht.net

  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-06 16:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-06 15:42 Eric Raymond
2011-02-06 16:14 ` Dave Täht [this message]
2011-02-06 16:15 ` Jim Gettys
2011-02-07 10:15   ` Simon Leinen
2011-02-07 17:45     ` Jim Gettys
2011-02-13 16:27       ` Simon Leinen
2011-02-08  0:51 Alex Burr

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