<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br><div><div>On Dec 20, 2013, at 4:22 PM, <a href="mailto:dpreed@reed.com">dpreed@reed.com</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">They are based on a completely false premise - that queues should be allowed to build at all, and that local information can solve highly transient global problems.</div><p style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </p><div style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">"Dumb Queue Management" is going to be far superior. Keep the queue at zero length, and try to be fair.</div></blockquote></div><br><div>Maybe we should go for ATHQM - “Attila (the Hun) Queue Management”. :-)</div><div><br></div><div>Rich</div></body></html>