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Re: Weather Service faces Internet bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key data
From: Tom Beecher <beecher () beecher cc>
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 09:46:32 -0500
I would say it's likely much larger. https://twitter.com/CoasterBGW/status/1336387160220569603/photo/1 Their design is to run everything from one datacenter? I am enjoying the level of irony that the rest of us consider catastrophic weather events in our datacenter planning, but the NWS does not. I'm sure like most things with technology and government it's less about desire and more about politics of proper funding. On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 9:40 AM Keith Medcalf <kmedcalf () dessus com> wrote:
Simply get rid of the gigabytes of JavaScript and stupidly designed crap and hire someone who knows what they are doing and a bandwidth DOWNGRADE will be in order. The root cause is incompetence and it can be fixed by getting rid of all the children and hiring someone who knows what they are doing. -- Be decisive. Make a decision, right or wrong. The road of life is paved with flat squirrels who could not make a decision.-----Original Message----- From: NANOG <nanog-bounces+kmedcalf=dessus.com () nanog org> On Behalf Of Rich Kulawiec Sent: Thursday, 10 December, 2020 01:13 To: nanog () nanog org Subject: Fwd: Weather Service faces Internet bandwidth shortage,proposeslimiting key data ----- Forwarded message from Dave Farber <farber () gmail com> -----From: Dave Farber <farber () gmail com> Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 15:47:44 +0900 Subject: [IP] Weather Service faces Internet bandwidth shortage,proposes limiting key dataWeather Service faces Internet bandwidth shortage, proposes limitingkey dataThe National Weather Service is proposing to place limits onaccessingitslife-saving weather data in a bid to fix Internet outages. By Jason Samenow and Andrew Freedman https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/12/09/nws-data-limits-internet-bandwidth/ [snip] This seems like a problem that this group could solve rather rapidlywithminimal incremental expense. It also seems like one that's very much worth solving. ---rsk
Current thread:
- Fwd: Weather Service faces Internet bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key data Rich Kulawiec (Dec 10)
- Re: Weather Service faces Internet bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key data Mel Beckman (Dec 10)
- Re: Weather Service faces Internet bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key data Mark Tinka (Dec 10)
- Re: Weather Service faces Internet bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key data Daniel Seagraves (Dec 10)
- Re: Weather Service faces Internet bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key data John Levine (Dec 10)
- RE: Weather Service faces Internet bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key data Keith Medcalf (Dec 10)
- Re: Weather Service faces Internet bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key data Tom Beecher (Dec 10)
- Re: Weather Service faces Internet bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key data Jared Mauch (Dec 10)
- Re: Weather Service faces Internet bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key data Rich Kulawiec (Dec 10)
- Re: Fwd: Weather Service faces Internet bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key data Miles Fidelman (Dec 10)
- Re: Weather Service faces Internet bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key data William Herrin (Dec 10)
- Re: Weather Service faces Internet bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key data Mel Beckman (Dec 10)