Re: New Version Notification for draft-nottingham-bikeshed-length-00.txt

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In message <20200319161130.GA19209@1wt.eu>, Willy Tarreau writes:
>On Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 03:53:32PM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:

>> We could make it explictly fuzzy, by definting it as kilobytes rounded down ?
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>I think it's an excellent idea, which even goes in the direction of
>reducing the on-wire bytes. And given todays connections speeds, if we
>use it only for progress bars it could even represent megabytes rounded
>to the nearest. Less than 0.5 will usually not take more than a few
>seconds and not deserve showing an accurate progress bar.

I thought about that, but I know of applications where traffic is sorted
in "small", "medium" and "huge", where "small" is significantly less than
a megabyte, so I think the units should in the kilobytes rather than
megabytes range.  Just to throw a number out there:  Smaller than 32k.

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