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Re: Statements against new.net?
From: Geoff Huston <gih () telstra net>
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 14:59:39 +1100
At 3/14/01 07:56 AM, Vadim Antonov wrote:
That is based on the assumption that consistency is necessary or desireable :) Of course, it is dear to an engineer's mind, but the case from the sociological point of view is far from clear-cut. In fact, way too many woes of human societies can be (at least indirectly) attributed to the misguided attempts to enforce consistency.
This assumption is explicitly addressed in the RFC - I quote: ------ 1.1. Maintenance of a Common Symbol SetEffective communications between two parties requires two essential preconditions:
- The existence of a common symbol set, and - The existence of a common semantic interpretation of these symbols.Failure to meet the first condition implies a failure to communicate at all, while failure to meet the second implies that the meaning of the communication is lost.
In the case of a public communications system this condition of a common symbol set with a common semantic interpretation must be further strengthened to that of a unique symbol set with a unique semantic interpretation. This condition of uniqueness allows any party to initiate a communication that can be received and understood by any other party. Such a condition rules out the ability to define a symbol within some bounded context. In such a case, once the communication moves out of the context of interpretation in which it was defined, the meaning of the symbol becomes lost.
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- Re: Statements against new.net?, (continued)
- Re: Statements against new.net? Shawn McMahon (Mar 13)
- Re: Statements against new.net? Patrick Greenwell (Mar 13)
- Re: Statements against new.net? Hank Nussbacher (Mar 14)
- Re: Statements against new.net? Rafi Sadowsky (Mar 14)
- Re: Statements against new.net? Sean Donelan (Mar 13)
- Re: Statements against new.net? Valdis . Kletnieks (Mar 13)
- Re: Statements against new.net? Brett Frankenberger (Mar 13)
- Re: Statements against new.net? Steven M. Bellovin (Mar 13)
- Re: Statements against new.net? Vadim Antonov (Mar 13)
- Re: Statements against new.net? Scott Francis (Mar 13)
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- Re: Statements against new.net? Geoff Huston (Mar 13)
- Re: Statements against new.net? Vadim Antonov (Mar 14)
- Re: Statements against new.net? Vadim Antonov (Mar 13)
- Re: Statements against new.net? Patrick Greenwell (Mar 13)
- Re: Statements against new.net? Valdis . Kletnieks (Mar 13)
- Re: Statements against new.net? Scott Francis (Mar 13)
- Re: Statements against new.net? Havard Eidnes (Mar 13)
- Re: Statements against new.net? Valdis . Kletnieks (Mar 13)
- RE: Statements against new.net? Mike Batchelor (Mar 13)
- RE: Statements against new.net? David R. Conrad (Mar 13)