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/

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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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