Quality Information Services (quis) ----------------------------------- Charter Last Modified: 06/05/2000 Current Status: Concluded Working Group Chair(s): April Marine Mitra Applications Area Director(s): Ned Freed Patrik Faltstrom Applications Area Advisor: Ned Freed Technical Advisor(s): Erik Huizer Mailing Lists: General Discussion:quality@naic.nasa.gov To Subscribe: listmanager@naic.nasa.gov In Body: subscribe quality Archive: listmanager@naic.nasa.gov body=`index quality' Description of Working Group: The number of information services (Gopher, WWW, etc.) on the Internet is growing rapidly. This poses a problem for administrators, implementors and providers in maintaining the quality of the information service (as opposed to quality of the information itself). The aim of this working group is to deal with one of the specific problems with respect to quality of the information service, namely link problems. A link problem is defined as the case where a user selects a link and is returned slow data, no data, incomplete data or wrong data. The working group will analyze link failures and their causes, and, based on the analysis, it will devise both technical solutions and operational recommendations to address this specific problem. Goals and Milestones: Done Meet at the San Jose IETF, and analyse link failures and their causes. MAR 95 Submit Internet-Draft detailing results of the link failure analysis done in San Jose. JUL 95 Submit initial Internet-Drafts addressing operational and technical recommendations for providing maximally reliable information services. JUL 95 Submit the link failure analysis Internet-Draft as an Informational RFC. DEC 95 Submit the operational and technical recommendations Internet-Draft as an Informational RFC. Internet-Drafts: No Current Internet-Drafts. Request For Comments: None to date.