[Bloat] april 7th fcc on broadband labels

[Dave Collier-Brown]

A little politicking: change the name to make the metric actually mean what it says.

Turn "Typical packet loss" into "Typical retransmissions".

"Packet loss" is misleading except to a TCP/IP expert.

We recommend reporting reporting what losses cause, retransmissions. Retransmissions are meaningful to the consumer, because it tells them what percentage of the packets are significantly delayed. Like high latency, retransmissions cause delays, garbling, drop-outs and "buffering" messages in both audio and video.

If we have someone there for the Q&A or if someone knows one of the panelists, super. In any case, get it to them in writing as a bug report, not a request for improvement.

--dave

And the fix is only a few extra characters, and fits in the space on the label


On 3/30/22 11:21, Dave Taht wrote:

Anyone got a presence at this? I'd really like to kill "typical"
packet loss as a metric dead...

https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-announces-second-public-hearing-broadband-consumer-labels



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