[Bloat] Random idea in reaction to all the discussion of TCPflavours - timestamps?

[Dave Täht]

Jonathan Morton <chromatix99 at gmail.com> writes:

> On 21 Mar, 2011, at 1:04 am, Dave Täht wrote:
>
>>>> We're not testing interplanetary networks here, (rather, an
>>>> artificially induced one extending out well beyond the moon!) but it
>>>> bears a little thinking about.
>>> 
>>> Perhaps an idea for presenting bufferbloat visually? Draw a picture of
>>> the space around the Earth, with circles around the earth whose
>>> diameters are proportional to bufferbloat-induced equivalent RTT
>>> across different ISP links, or different consumer hardware,
>>> etc. "Bufferbloat puts New York on the far side of the moon!" might be
>>> a tagline to get people's attention ;)
>> 
>> That is similar to one of the ideas I had while prototyping the cosmic
>> background bufferbloat detector.
>
> Come with us.
> Leave your wheat fields.
> Leave your back-street shops, your fishing boats.
> Leave your offices in the tall skyscrapers.
> Leave all that is routine and commonplace,
> And come with us at once.
>
> Come with us,
> To where Man has never been,
> But where he will go,
> As certain as the passing of time.
>
> Come with us to the Moon.
> The rocket is waiting...
>
>  -- The Orb, "The Passing Of Time", Orblivion

Pass the kool-aid, will ya? I hear owsley left a legacy.

http://articles.latimes.com/2011/mar/15/local/la-me-owsley-stanley-20110315



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