My Webster's Collegiate lists one meaning of "dampen" as "to check or
diminish the activity or vigor of". That same reference lists the word
"damping" as having one meaning of "to diminish the activity or intensity
of damping down the causes of inflation" and also "to check the vibration
or oscillation of "
Regional variations, depending upon the education of those who wrote the
RFC, or flooded the term through the engineering world?
Did we ever determine if the term "split horizon" truly did have a nautical
influence?
Chuck
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Peter Van Oene
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Subject: Dampening or damping
Off topic, but from a technical precision perspective, I have a feeling
that the correct term is "damping" not "dampening." RFC 2439, the damping
rfc, refers to the process exclusively as damping. It would seem that Cisco
in both description and command syntax, uses the term dampening, leading to
this proliferation of innacurracy.
Dampening to me feels like I'm going to get my routes all wet :) Of course,
damping has pretty much the same meaning in every dictionary I've looked at.
Of course, I really should find myself something more productive to research
:)
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