RE: TCP/IP Terms

["Bill Strahm" <bill at strahm.net>]

<Cynicism>
I always figured it was based on the number of managers that you have on
the project, one manager for each layer...  At least that is how it was
done at a previous company I worked for...

</Cynicism>

Models are very nice to help you get people to think about something the
same way.  Of course the best engineers that I know, understand the
model, but think way outside it... Letting unique solutions that break
the model, but deliver better results...

Bill

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ietf at ietf.org [mailto:owner-ietf at ietf.org] On Behalf Of Dave
Crocker
Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 12:25 PM
To: Robert Elz
Cc: ietf at ietf.org
Subject: Re: TCP/IP Terms 


At 11:38 PM 10/7/2002 +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
>Attempting to give these things absolute numbers, other than for ease 
>of reference in some particular context is lunacy.

Not that I disagree with your primary point, it is worth noting that
there 
is some basis for hovering about 7, for an *overall* model.

It's that memory limit thing (7, plus or minus 2.)  The plus or minus is

statistical, so if you want to make sure that people really have no
trouble 
grokking the total set, 5 is a better choice.

d/


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