Statistics (RE: The "late surprise" problem)

[Scott W Brim]

On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 07:32:11PM +0100, Bert allegedly wrote:
> When I see this (in terms of IDs submitted in the weeks before
> teh IETF:
> > >
> > > 	Week 1	90	12%
> > > 	Week 2	82	11%	 (Initial cutoff)
> > > 	Week 3	194	26%	 (ID Cutoff)
> > > 	Week 4	385	51%
> > 
> Then it seems clear to me that that is a BIG scaling/size problem.
> There is no way people can do due dilligence in reading 51% of
> the documents (relevant to him/her) in the last week before the 
> IETF.

The approach I took recently was to put out a version a month before the
meeting, and then put out a corrected version just before the meeting.
I don't like it because of the increased load on the secretariat, but I
haven't come up with a better way of working.  Perhaps the idea of
limiting "presentations" would work.  Perhaps moving the deadline even
further back.