[Cerowrt-devel] Figure of Merit...

Dave Taht dave.taht at gmail.com
Wed Feb 1 01:04:03 EST 2012


we had a long discussion of this on the bloat list about 6 months back.

We are a long way from zero bloat as yet... lowbloat. Now with 10x less bloat?

On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 6:39 AM, Richard Brown
<richard.e.brown at dartware.com> wrote:
> We've been talking about a way to indicate that a router has incorporated the bufferbloat suppression. How about ZeroBloat (tm)?
>
> It's not quite a unit of measure (imagine the husband and wife in Best Buy... "How many ZeroBloat's does that one have, honey?" :-), but it'd be an obvious acknowledgement that the software inside was designed with some thought toward solving the problem.
>
> Perhaps there's a "1.0" spec that says use qdisc X, Y, and/or Z, and if research develops something better, define ZeroBloat 2.0 to indicate that.
>
> Best,
>
> Rich



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