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Why this particular list of network types? #10

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jkarlin opened this issue Mar 25, 2014 · 2 comments
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Why this particular list of network types? #10

jkarlin opened this issue Mar 25, 2014 · 2 comments

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jkarlin commented Mar 25, 2014

Hi! I'm trying to understand how the list of connection types was decided upon. There is an argument that the distinction between 2g/3g/4g is not exposed because there are no use cases and because it's unwise to infer bandwidth by connection type. So then why is ethernet/wifi exposed? There are no provided use cases and inferring bandwidth is similarly unwise there.
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I think the motivation there was "because we can". It certainly wasn't part of the use cases we looked at.

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@jkarlin more discussions are happening over here: https://github.com/w3c/netinfo

@ferjm maybe add a note to the README letting people know that the discussion has moved over to the W3C?

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