From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-oi0-x233.google.com (mail-oi0-x233.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4003:c06::233]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by huchra.bufferbloat.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DC33221F373; Thu, 5 Mar 2015 08:21:54 -0800 (PST) Received: by oiav1 with SMTP id v1so12556449oia.9; Thu, 05 Mar 2015 08:21:53 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=4O9R660LZFDtBWa9ba0/ImXjx0Ad7ECyj0bvr2iMuyg=; b=wunnSvWBUJPwZ72d9GmHmPLHMcCQwtqyQjlM2O29bFa1hO8dk8bMV4lpTYyO/7/7db bPfR4lgptVF1DD3Gd4+25Vztzo0wupMTjWNVMJmbAR3cRI11K0DNj07Nd0ezgYJrZbhF OdNvNoCsix5dl8UAw2GKfK6SLddermMqZdpiIBuspFMleFD2Q25qzLOGUa+/1NIJxxop hReBF2bq+kEHBEW0wFqTCehMwMsIVWEd481RyCVd0mPzCozXCiXjdXwsG6QzzFkC+2l2 hed/BpdsMKRgZ+dBSU2vLFS2akKsV1RqwgTOAphvGwp2EMOW19vDOOPAWtCkg6xDXhn9 6JpA== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.60.57.9 with SMTP id e9mr7661465oeq.24.1425572513609; Thu, 05 Mar 2015 08:21:53 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.202.51.66 with HTTP; Thu, 5 Mar 2015 08:21:53 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2015 08:21:53 -0800 Message-ID: From: Dave Taht To: bloat , "aqm@ietf.org" , "cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net" , "codel@lists.bufferbloat.net" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [Bloat] some thoughts towards medals and other recognition for fundamental contributions to the internet 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, 05 Mar 2015 16:22:23 -0000 On Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 6:48 AM, Dave Taht wrote: > There are plenty of people involved in the bufferbloat project who > already have got plenty of medals, awards and statuettes - Eric > Raymond, Jim Gettys, Paul Vixie, Vint Cerf, Fred Baker, etc... > > And there are now a bunch of newer people that have made enormous > contributions to making the Internet better, and it would be good to > somehow, give them some recognition for that. > > Are there some set of medal granting organisations we could submit > these peoples' names to? > > * Kathie Nichols and Van Jacobson - for making a fundamental > contribution towards understanding the causes of network latency with > codel > * Jesper Dangaard-Brauer - for solving all the thorny rateshaping > problems on PPPoe/ATM/DSL in his masters thesis (and in running code) > * Tom Herbert - for the invention of BQL > * Eric Dumazet - for the invention of fq_codel (and being the worlds > greatest active network programmer!) > * Juliusz Chroboczek - for solving nearly all the problems that > distance vector routing had, and making source specific routing > actually work > * Greg White - for driving the DOCSIS 3.1 standard > * Simon Kelly - IMHO, he deserves a knighthood and place in the > mythology along with Tim-Berners-Lee - as unlike http, dnsmasq has > been invisible, nearly as widespread, and far less problematic. He's > England's national treasure, and just spent 3 years making DNSSEC > deployable along the edge, besides. > * PI, PIE teams. > * No doubt I am not remembering someone, apologies! please feel free > to offer up some suggestions! (but what I am mostly looking for is a > (set of) place(s) to give names to!) Adding: * Luca Muscariello and James Roberts - for fighting the good fight on FQ after Nagle gave up. As I thought about it, it started to get to be quite the long list, and well, it's something work on as we try to find places for all these people in internet history. > Even without finding some separate medal granting org, I have longed > to create a *new* award - an "Internet Pioneers Award". > > It would feature a statuette of an engineer, chained to a rock, > marketroids eating his guts out, with a dozen arrows in his back, with > hands outstretched - holding up a shiny new piece of technology. > > First up, for that award (and I can think of plenty of others > eligible!), would be this guy: > > http://the-edge.blogspot.com/2003/06/wireless-connection.html > > ... without whom, it would have taken a lot longer for the entire home > router market to exist. > > In addition to the statue that award would include an all-expenses > paid trip to some tropical beach, somewhere, that didn't have > internet! > > I see isoc does some stuff, the process for national science awards is > not very clear... LF does some stuff... > > What else is there? > > -- > Dave T=C3=A4ht > Let's make wifi fast, less jittery and reliable again! > > https://plus.google.com/u/0/107942175615993706558/posts/TVX3o84jjmb --=20 Dave T=C3=A4ht Let's make wifi fast, less jittery and reliable again! https://plus.google.com/u/0/107942175615993706558/posts/TVX3o84jjmb