[ih] Better-than-Best Effort: Lower latency

[touch at strayalpha.com]

> On Aug 30, 2021, at 8:01 PM, John Gilmore via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> 
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> It appears that there are lots of ways to skin the latency cat despite
> the speed of light.

Except that there aren’t. There are very specific ways to get around unnecessary latency (e.g., when interaction is limited to a finite set of decisions), but truly unpredictable behavior always incurs SOL delays with everything it impacts (cone of light).

I have a 180+ slide, 4-hour, 7-yr old tutorial on this issue and those ways - including hollow-core fiber.

As I said back in 1988: 
“Everyone talks about the speed of light, but nobody every does anything about it”.

Joe

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Joe Touch, temporal epistemologist
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