cache-busting

I noticed the recent thread on cache busting. The last item mentioned
by Shel Kaplan about the use of unique URLs can be probably a good
motivation to use a different replacement policy than LRU. Lorenzo
Viciano and I have a report on this at

	http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/research.html/

which suggests a different policy called LRV which uses -- among
other parameters -- the number of previous accesses to determine
how valuable is a document. The nice thing about LRV is that the
weight associated with the number of previous accesses to a document
is evaluated dynamically by a proxy: if the percentage of
documents with a single access increases, their weight decreases
and they are purged earlier.

	Luigi
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Luigi Rizzo                     Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione
email: luigi@iet.unipi.it       Universita' di Pisa
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