User:Tali64^2/Dave Taht
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Tali64^2/Dave Taht | |
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 Dave Täht at IETF 104, March 2018. | |
| Born | August 11, 1965 Ocean City, New Jersey, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Other names | Michael |
| Alma mater | Rutgers University |
| Occupation(s) | Founder/CTO of TekLibre, LLC.,[1][2] |
| Known for | Co-Founder of the Bufferbloat Project |
Dave Täht (born 1965) is an American computer scientist, musician, lecturer, asteroid exploration advocate and Internet activist. He is the CTO of TekLibre, LLC.
Activity
[edit]Täht co-founded the Bufferbloat Project with Jim Gettys, ran the "CeroWrt". and "Make-Wifi-Fast". sub-projects, and referees the bufferbloat related [1] mailing lists and related research activities.
In the early stages of the Bufferbloat project he helped prove that applying advanced AQM and Fair Queuing techniques to network packet flows would break essential assumptions in existing low priority congestion controls such as bittorrent and LEDBAT and further, that it didn't matter.[3]
The CeroWrt project showed that advanced algorithms like CODEL, FQ_Codel, and Cake were effective not only at low bandwidths but scaled to 10s of GB/s and could be implemented on inexpensive hardware. The make-wifi-fast project solved ("LWN".) the wifi performance anomaly and made FQ_Codel work on multiple wifi chips in Linux.
During the make-wifi-fast project, while working with Vint Cerf and many other internet originals, he successfully fought proposed FCC rules to prohibit the installation of 3rd party firmware on home routers.[4]
With a long running goal of one day building an internet with sufficiently low latency that "you could plug your piano into the wall and play with a drummer across town" [5], he has been intensely critical of the academic network research community, extolling open access, open source code and the value of negative and repeatable results. [6]
He is the co-author of RFC8290 [7], and a contributor to RFC8289, RFC7567, RFC8034, RFC7928, RFC7806, and RFC8033, and made contributions to the DOCSIS 3.1 standard.
In 2018, with John Gilmore and Paul Wouters, he began the IPv4 unicast extensions project[8], which is trying to add 420 million new IPv4 addresses to the global internet.
Täht claims (tongue in cheek) he graduated from the University of USENET in September 1993. He also claims to be one of the inventors of the first American embedded Linux wifi routers, after successfully overturning a patent attempt on the concept.[9]
He is a filksinger, often performing songs like "It GPLs me", and "One First Landing" at various computer and science fiction conventions.
He serves on the Commons Conservancy board of directors.
References
[edit]- ^ M.D. Täht (Dec 12, 2015). "The Tenative Return of Teklibre". Teklibre – Freedom Technology.
- ^ "Dave Täht's Linkedin page".
- ^ Gong; Rossi; Testa; Valenti; Täht (June 2013). "Fighting the bufferbloat: on the coexistence of AQM and low priority congestion control" (PDF). Computer Networks. INFOCOM 2013 (published 2014).
- ^ Taht, Dave. "Vint Cerf and 260 experts give FCC a plan to secure wifi routers".
- ^ Täht, Dave (June 2013). "Towards imperceptible latency" (PDF).
- ^ Taht, Dave. "The value of repeatable experiments and negative results" (PDF).
- ^ Hoeiland-Joergensen, Toke (January 2018). The Flow Queue CoDel Packet Scheduler and AQM algorithm. IETF. doi:10.17487/RFC8290. RFC 8290.
- ^ Taht, Dave. "IPv4 Unicast Extensions Project".
- ^ Taht, Dave. "Who Invented the embedded Linux wifi router".
FIXMEs: Add in Jim Gettys's last blog entry: https://gettys.wordpress.com/2018/02/11/the-blind-men-and-the-elephant/
cake https://lwn.net/Articles/758353/ IETF http://blog.cerowrt.org/post/
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/atc17/atc17-hoiland-jorgensen.pdf
Add in The congestion notification controversy
add in lbip
figure out how to do cites better
Høiland-Jørgensen, T.; et al. "Ending the Anomaly: Achieving Low Latency and Airtime Fairness in WiFi". Proceedings of the 2017 USENIX Annual Technical Conference. USENIX ATC '17 July 12-14, 2017, Santa Clara, CA, USA. pp. 139–151.
External links
[edit]- CeroWrt Notebook (Täht's congestion control blog)
- bufferbloat.net where work on bufferbloat is taking place
- Tali64^2/Dave Taht on LinkedIn
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