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

[Jonathan Morton]

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.

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