[Bloat] marketing #102 - giving netperf-wrapper a better name?

[Dave Taht]

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 <rick.jones2 at hp.com> 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 stripes
> 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
>>
>>
>
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Dave Täht
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