Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 20:54:57 -0500 From: Mark Allman <mallman@icir.org> To: Jeffrey Hsu <hsu@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Who wants SACK? (Re: was My planned work on networking stack) Message-ID: <20040309015458.F38DA10F269@lawyers.icir.org> In-Reply-To: <200403082325.i28NPAa3010399@mtaw6.prodigy.net>
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--=-=-= > > I hope it is clear to everyone that an investment in the 50K$ > > range would provide a professional-grade implementation of SACK > > for FreeBSD, and this money is in the noise for any organization > > that uses trans-oceanic gigabit links. > > What Luigi says is absolutely correct. It doesn't take a lot to get > this done. I've talked to a number of companies about implementing > SACK for them and while there was interest, no one wanted to fund it > all themselves, potentially for the benefit of their competitors. I > know of two that went and did it themselves for FreeBSD --- one of > which did it wrong and saw zero benefit from SACK and another that did > it right, but are keeping it proprietary as an edge. Given that Linux > and Windows already have it, these and the multiple past efforts > collectively seem like an unnecessary duplication of work. Perhaps if > we could pool enough interest, we can raise enough to put this issue > to rest once and for all. On the freebsd web page, there is a note about monetary contributions. I wonder if it would be worth it to make this a bit more verbose and list specific things that are in need of funding. So, companies can tag a small donation for "SACK development" and when there is enough in the pool it can just get done. Would that spurn folks on a bit? Or, would it be useful to setup some sort of committment system whereby a company can say "we'll throw 5K in if you get committments for the 50K you need to make X happen". It might be worth the modest investment to setup something like that and keep it maintained. That way it's a bit more official than some random person running around and trying to put together the required coin. Just a thought .... allman -- Mark Allman -- ICIR -- http://www.icir.org/mallman/ --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (Darwin) iD8DBQFATSPxWyrrWs4yIs4RAjWHAKCO7vREK6gUIsEBzSWcBEC8y+yEtQCcDqza EQ4RabGubBLJE1ruLhr/YPk= =T7/t -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--
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