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

[Dave Taht]

while I am at it the us trademark db is here:

http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=tess&state=4802:nateox.1.1

and welcome to the early 00s in terms of UI!

I do hope someone here comes up with a good idea for a better name, as
we sit and brainstorm for a while, here. The best I have come up with
yet is pretty terrible - bload - pronounced "blowed".


On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 4:48 PM, Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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