Larry Masinter <LMM@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> I've spent a little time collecting experiences of people trying to
> convert in-person activities to remote using the internet. A common
> experience for many in the teacher/leader role is how to help their
> students/employees/members with their Internet connections.
This is a good idea.
> What standards are there already, or should be developed in IETF or W3C
> or ....
> * "What is needed in order to do X remotely"
> Where "X" fits a small number of consumer categories ('office work"
> "watch HD movies" "document collaboration" "voice meeting" "video
> meeting") In terms of bandwidth, latency, jitter, dropout rate,
> etc. (as might be spec'd in a SLA)
> * an open-source test tool that is available for popular platforms
> (windows, mac, linux, ios, android) or run in the browser
> That one could download and run that would tell you Whether your
> connection met the standard for various categories
I don't think that this the right way to do this.
Instead, I suggest that we create a privacy-enhanced format and mechanism
(protocol to /.well-known perhaps) to report all this information.
Of course, you probably want open source reference implementations, but
the key here is that you want OS vendors to implement this reporting utility
themselves, such that they can report why the service couldn't not be done.
(such: "violates personal firewall policy X", "violates corporate security policy Y",
"requires more bandwidth than policy allows", "attempts to connect to
sites/countries banned by policy")
> * An aspirational goal, to include useful hints / diagnostics / data
> about what you could do to improve (e.g. detect bufferbloat)
> * as a metric for use in broadband access plans for universal access
> Some Internet games have meters, there's speedtest which is mostly
> "bandwidth" There are some kinds of uses that need guaranteed low
> latency
and you may have read that dslreports' speedtest is no longer available for
free.
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