[AusNOG] "It's like grandfather's axe"

[Ross Wheeler]

On Fri, 22 Nov 2013, Beeson, Ayden wrote:

> It's less about infallibility and more about accountability.

> As was said, it's all the "Up to" and "maximum" that is the issue.


Perhaps a page from the "Weights and Measures" handbook. Turn it all 
around, rather than the unprovable puffery of "Up to 2 million 
terrabits/nanosecond (*)" how about a guaranteed MINIMUM speed.

If you sell something that you claim will deliver "not less than 2 
megabits/second" then thats exactly what it has to achieve, all the time. 
Sure, it might burst to 5, 10, 100 megabits/sec and thats perfectly 
acceptable, as long as it ACHIEVES the published MINIMUM speed ALL THE 
TIME. (Just like if you buy a litre of petrol.. it has to be "at least" a 
litre. (or at least within a couple of percent). Isn't that how a "bakers 
dozen" came to be? To make sure they delivered (at least) what they HAD 
to, including the lumps and bumps of a few smaller-than-expected 
individuals)?

R.