Rogier Wolff wrote: > The "we'll turn it on in February" warning is worth NOTHING in this > situation: February comes and goes. March comes and goes. Everybody > who read the warning will think: Ok, so I must be fine. > > A warning of the form: "ECN will go on as soon as this message clears > the queues" would've been useful, as thousands (hundreds?) suddenly get > nothing anymore. > I agree with this line of thinking. The various academics studying geology have been warning California about "The Big One" for years now, and no one seems to care anymore. I don't think anyone's being lazy and I certainly don't have the information to comment on the size of their butts. So I'd rather just assume they were working very hard on other things (like getting TPC-H benchmarks to run!) Steve -- Steve Modica Manager - Networking Drivers Group "Give a man a fish, and he will eat for a day, hit him with a fish and he leaves you alone" - me - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
