[Bloat] Latency Measurements in Speed Test suites (was: DOCSIS 3+ recommendation?)

[Livingood, Jason]

Could be via a browser plugin?

Regards,
Jason 

Jason Livingood
Comcast - Internet Services

> On Mar 30, 2015, at 11:55, Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I think the most effective thing would be to add bufferbloat testing
> infrastructure to the web browsers themselves. There are already
> plenty of tools for measuring web performance (whyslow for firefox,
> the successor to chrome web page benchmarker) more or less built in...
> measuring actual network performance under load is not much of a
> reach.
> 
> The issues this would resolve are:
> 
> 1) speed - the test(s) could use native apis within the browser and
> thus achieve higher rates of speed than is possible with javascript
> (and monitor cpu usage)
> 2) we could rigorously define the tests to have similar features to
> netperf-wrapper
> 3) we could get much better tcp statistics as in with TCP_INFO
> 4) output formats could still be json as we do today, but plotted better
> 5) ?
> 
> Problems are:
> 
> 0) Convincing users to use (and believe) them
> 1) Suitable server targets for the tests themselves
> 2) Although the browsers are basically in a nearly quarterly update
> cycle, it would still take time for the tests to be widely available
> even if they were ready today
> 3) Convincing the browser makers that they could use such tests
> 4) Writing the tests (in C and C++)
> 5) The outcry at speedtest, et al, for obsoleting their tools
> (think microsoft vs "stacker")
> 6) Bloating up the browsers still further
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