Re: [Asrg] About that e-postage draft [POSTAGE]

[der Mouse <mouse at Rodents-Montreal.ORG>]

> Network latency is particularly resistant to Moore's law or anything
> like it.

Well, sure; we're up to the point where speed-of-light is a substantial
fraction of the latency of long-haul links.  I suspect - admittedly
without evidence - that if you subtract off the speed-of-light delay,
something rather like Moore's law will turn up.

When $DAYJOB opened an office in Thailand and people were complaining
about the network latency, I had to point out that something like half
the latency we were seeing was compelled by a combination of lightspeed
and going around (versus through) the planet.  Our planet is something
like 140 light-milliseconds around, and we were seeing quarter-second
RTTs - and I don't for a moment think packets were taking great-circle
paths to get there.

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