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Re: [re-ECN] Acronym for BoF / w-g?

Richard Bennett <richard@bennett.com> Tue, 29 September 2009 00:37 UTC

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My suggestion is "Predicting Congestion" or "precon". If you want to go 
Hollywood, you could even go with "precog", but there's something about 
"precon" that I find oddly appealing.

RB

Fred Baker wrote:
>
> On Sep 28, 2009, at 5:01 PM, Bob Briscoe wrote:
>
>>> That brings me back to "congestion exposure" or "congestion exposure
>>> experiments".
>>
>> What about an acronym?
>> Do you think Kwok's concern over becoming a CEX pot needs heeding?
>
> Kwok has a point, but personally it doesn't bother me as much; this 
> thread will probably be the longest thread on the topic, and it's not 
> all that long. We could discuss come of the acronyms that have been 
> proposed, and some that have made it through.
>
> Personally, I think this is a case for the AAAAA. ATTYOB. Most of our 
> real problems are BKAM. BTDTGTS.
>
> AWHFY?
>
> BTAICBW...
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Richard Bennett
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