I'm not sure if there are regional variations. I haven't seen much outside of the
world of cisco that uses the term dampening. I looked at Ripe, arin, merit etc. All
use damping. I'm still sure this is Cisco's tremendous ability to drive de facto
standards and terminology.
For the record, my oxford has the same definitions. I think those dictionary people
plagiarize anyway.
Pete
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On 11/17/2000 at 11:27 PM Chuck Larrieu wrote:
>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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>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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