User:Tali64^2/Dave Taht

Dave Täht (born 1965) is an American computer scientist, musician, lecturer, asteroid exploration advocate and Internet activist. He is the CTO of TekLibre, LLC.

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Täht co-founded the Bufferbloat Project with Jim Gettys, ran the and  sub-projects, and referees the bufferbloat related  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.

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 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.

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" , 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.

He is the co-author of RFC8290, 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, 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.

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.