Re: Fwd: Weather Service faces Internet bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key data

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman () meetinghouse net>]

Rich Kulawiec wrote:
> ----- 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 data
> >
> > Weather Service faces Internet bandwidth shortage, proposes limiting key data
> > The National Weather Service is proposing to place limits on accessing its
> > life-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 rapidly with minimal
> incremental expense.  It also seems like one that's very much worth solving.
High resolution images, lots of users, lots of reps per minute - sounds 
like a budgetary problem to me.  Yup, limiting refreshes doesn't seem 
unreasonable - pending some serious redesign of their content delivery 
network.  Meanwhile, remember that these folks are seeing serious 
political efforts to limit things like climate modeling - so some of 
this might be information suppression through resource starvation.

Miles Fidelman



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