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/ ---------- Dave Crocker <mailto:dave@tribalwise.com> TribalWise, Inc. <http://www.tribalwise.com> tel +1.408.246.8253; fax +1.408.850.1850