Hi Bob,

On Feb 25, 2015, at 18:28 , Bob Briscoe <[email protected]> wrote:

> Alex,
> 
> At 09:31 25/02/2015, Alex Elsayed wrote:
>> It was less a criticism of your work itself, and more pointing out that Bob
>> Briscoe was applying research on symmetric paths to asymmetric paths without
>> questioning the applicability of its conclusions.
> 
> Mea culpa.
> Just one ambiguous inference and the whole list explodes!
> 
> When I said "The paper convinced me that ARED is good enough (in the paper's 
> simulations it was often better than PIE or CoDel),"
> 
> I didn't mean 'good enough to go ahead and deploy'. Don't worry we're testing 
> out ARED. I meant good enough to make it the centre of my attention. (I did 
> say "consider deploying" later in the sentence).
> 
> Our ARED testing is focusing on whether there are any pathologies, rather 
> than whether it is slightly better or worse than the perfect solution X that 
> will takes a decade to make any difference to the majority.
> 
> It's interesting that no-one picked up on the sentence "This could reduce 
> deployment completion time from decades to a few months."
> I take that as a symptom that the bufferbloat list is mainly populated by 
> implementers. If there's a nail that can't be hit with the implementation 
> hammer, it seems it's not an interesting nail, even if it's an extremely 
> important nail.

        My understanding was that your idea “any AQM is better than none” is 
the consensus; the promise of actual deployment on existing hardware is really 
interesting. Especially when one considers how much real world data this could 
produce to compare other implementations against. Also I would not be amazed if 
a deployment the size of BT might do, can move manufacturers to increase their 
interest in better AQM solutions to differentiate their products (but I guess 
that is dreaming ;) )

Best Regards
        Sebastian

> 
> 
> 
> Bob
> 
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