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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