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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.