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Improving description of contribution limits
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Clarify that limits are inherently a rate, not an absolute number. Addresses comments raised in #23.
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alexmturner authored Jul 13, 2023
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Expand Up @@ -446,10 +446,12 @@ propose the following structure. See [below](#implementation-plan) for the
specific choices we have made in our current implementation.

First, each user agent will limit the contribution that it could make to the
output of a query. In the case of a histogram operation, the user agent could
bound the L<sub>1</sub> norm of the _values_, i.e. the sum of all the
contributions across all buckets. The user agent could consider other bounds,
e.g. the L<sub>2</sub> norm.
outputs of aggregation service queries. (Note that this limitation is a rate
over time, not an absolute number, see [Partition choice](#partition-choice)
below.) In the case of a histogram operation, the user agent could bound the
L<sub>1</sub> norm of the _values_, i.e. the sum of all the contributions across
all buckets. The user agent could consider other bounds, e.g. the L<sub>2</sub>
norm.

The user agent would also need to determine what the appropriate
'partition' is for this budgeting, see [partition choice](#partition-choice)
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