From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-ie0-x233.google.com (mail-ie0-x233.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c03::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 E1DDE21F357 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 16:48:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: by iecvj10 with SMTP id vj10so65772073iec.0 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 16:48:30 -0700 (PDT) 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 :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=e3/GYT0aSxBumcr0pxTA/c0h57v4EEL8p++Hk5S5cSk=; b=VOUuNGvGf8LZUOHnkDWHFmXaYF3cYDrC8fHlct/panM3MdIVDZgymYuuiBQwmessyy CFrP6L1RMVE8k2CoPS899TFbhC4aaxTDPhgfUpvh+ygxwdNvLwGWcPPUTVD8fBFURQiD jMkkHIv7utHqxqDiiaLUbdXeAzVqTSPIvrAZz6MHzJFaUzGBKrpe3ROi9ccAEmXHLUG6 +sBhEfAVZtYtPZ5MKdqjC7nFOaEi83soNiLHlVRSND40vPIul9siBG/+/WbTpH4pA8+I XNEz8pDCvFkg/3CU5RbNJjQqrwfGpQ6expiBkoSFNSr0Ft7Kieg4Ynk2PihokoBJbg7w m95g== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.182.40.135 with SMTP id x7mr35939220obk.45.1426204110410; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 16:48:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.202.51.66 with HTTP; Thu, 12 Mar 2015 16:48:30 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <550221CD.8030606@hp.com> References: <550221CD.8030606@hp.com> Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 16:48:30 -0700 Message-ID: From: Dave Taht To: Rick Jones Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: bloat 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 23:49:00 -0000 I am just going to stand aside for a while... I would like to have a file extension that worked (and also a website name that worked). You can do searches on: http://www.file-extensions.org/ and various whois sites for domain names. On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 4:31 PM, Rick Jones wrote: > 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 stripe= s > 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 >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Bloat mailing list > Bloat@lists.bufferbloat.net > https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/bloat --=20 Dave T=C3=A4ht Let's make wifi fast, less jittery and reliable again! https://plus.google.com/u/0/107942175615993706558/posts/TVX3o84jjmb