Re: TCP/IP Terms

[Dave Crocker <dhc2 at dcrocker.net>]

At 08:19 PM 10/8/2002 -0400, John C Klensin wrote:
> I would suggest that this particular situation has almost
> nothing to do with the Miller result.  In particular, that
> hypothesis derives from work with short-term memory and the
> number of things one can keep track of at a time.

for serially related data, yes.  data that might be termed independent 
contexts probably is down to one for each of the information bits that he 
postulated, namely 3.  2 if you want to be safe.

At any rate, juggling a model, for doing real-time work -- like discussion 
-- seems to involve short-term memory issues.  Hence the limit still seems 
to apply.

> But this is getting very far afield from anything relevant to
> the  IETF or network modelling.

that was why I hadn't gone into citing Miller's paper, which is, by the 
way, a really fun read.  It was published in the preeminant psych journal, 
yet he open it with a discussion of his being stalked by a number...

d/


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