Re: [Bloat] cloudflare consumer labels blog

[Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com>]

thank you. I just ranted there also. Having tilted at that windmill
today, I am going to go do some real work....

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31041494

On Fri, Apr 15, 2022 at 9:55 AM Dave Collier-Brown
<dave.collier-brown@indexexchange.com> wrote:
>
> I added this comment via Hacker News
>
> "Packet loss" is more interesting to nerds than consumers, who don't know what it means. Arguably it needs a better name.
> "Delays due to retransmission" is short enough to fit the label, and is what a packet loss means _to the reader of the label_, rather than to me.
>
> --dave
>
>
> On 4/15/22 10:47, Dave Taht wrote:
>
> "We believe that metrics beyond bandwidth such as latency and jitter
> (the variance in latency) have grown appreciably in importance and
> that should be reflected in policy going forward."
>
> - https://blog.cloudflare.com/breaking-down-broadband-nutrition-labels/
>
> It also includes a number for "typical packet loss": .08%
>
> I miss when we could do a discussion in line with a blog, or via
> email, in this case, they post urls to reddit, etc, at the end.
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