From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-ob0-x22f.google.com (mail-ob0-x22f.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4003:c01::22f]) (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 9516A21F3C6; Thu, 5 Mar 2015 06:48:13 -0800 (PST) Received: by obcvb8 with SMTP id vb8so10234840obc.10; Thu, 05 Mar 2015 06:48:12 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=CDBI0cjCGxy76uFBHFOAS22QhqMVAwFUf6l3vcmc+Dw=; b=CE1Jz1AUCLI/oSR+Jcu6tHoU4dgP7tV+z53Rc4ldXMNl5CICq64CKlvBfwoPstaw03 z4X5Rf8fB4SOVU4gHs3/Jp14qTtNN0nqKclqsx0UD0ySljkJhX3KjvTLOS2PfRRANLBk ysnj2IbpSkKMI1Zv1wzsIw8RQZkUreEu6wJsjpPKiZ3RwwRkhcxEz0cTsBfrEWE2Gwzw Mh85f9IvR5eu7L9lYTwJmN44tvYq4nXl8Rs2j+8AKs1N5NzjP6FIBzBIxMpn4YnOt4QP NI+L2vTkwOqP7HWWScRsDiBDPfVwxDs9Xb/Rsc3Df5VWomjyJ8mW0OHR70l3Ta9XdFeC cpHQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.182.230.132 with SMTP id sy4mr7281312obc.29.1425566892004; Thu, 05 Mar 2015 06:48:12 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.202.51.66 with HTTP; Thu, 5 Mar 2015 06:48:11 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2015 06:48:11 -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: [Codel] some thoughts towards medals and other recognition for fundamental contributions to the internet X-BeenThere: codel@lists.bufferbloat.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: CoDel AQM discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2015 14:48:43 -0000 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!) 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? --=20 Dave T=C3=A4ht Let's make wifi fast, less jittery and reliable again! https://plus.google.com/u/0/107942175615993706558/posts/TVX3o84jjmb