[RRG] Route Flap Damping parameters

I have been following the discussion about BGP path hunting ('[RRG] BGP path hunting, MRAI timer and Path Length Damping') on this list with some interest. With Route Flap Damping (RFD) being a possible factor in the observed behavior, I had some questions about determining values for its configurable parameters (Suppression threshold, Reuse threshold, Time-to-half amplitude, and Maximum suppression time).

I understand that prior to the recommendation made in RIPE-378 to not use RFD, RIPE-229 made recommendations about configurable parameter settings. In reading RIPE-229, it seems the recommendations were not strongly based on observations of actual dynamics (although I could be dead wrong on this since I'm not familiar with all the work that lead to the creation of RIPE-229). As well, from reading a selection of papers on the subject of RFD preventing timely convergence, there doesn't seem to be an analysis of what might happen if RFD parameter sets other than the common defaults were applied, nor does there appear to be a history of literature on this subject. My reading in this area has been by no means exhaustive, so my questions are: has there been any work done on determining what the impact of other sets of RFD parameters might be; how have (or might) such sets be chosen; have the dynamical properties of the RFD algorithm been worked out - with a view towards assessing whether they would even be potentially capable of improving observed dynamics? I have been thinking about these areas, but wasn't sure if it had all been done before and these were dumb questions.