Subject: internet draft backlog

From: [email-masked] (Mike O'Dell)
Date: Sun, 7 Dec 1997 12:56:15 -0500 (EST)

I suggest we use the weighted RED algorithm.

at some point before the hard deadline, say 4 weeks, the probability of
your draft not getting posted starts rising linearly until the deadline
date, at which point it goes to a certainty.  (ie, probability of getting
left out is 1.0)

there's a cost (effort to get it done sooner) and a simple reward
function.

now people can chose what level of risk they wish to take and
modify their behavior accordingly.

	-mo