Quality Information Services (quis) Concluded WG

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WG	Name	Quality Information Services
	Acronym	quis
	Area	Applications Area (app)
	State	Concluded
	Charter	charter-ietf-quis-01 Approved
	Dependencies	Document dependency graph (SVG)
Personnel	Chairs	April Marine Mitra Ardron
	Tech Advisor	Erik Huizer
Mailing list	Address	quality@naic.nasa.gov
	To subscribe	listmanager@naic.nasa.gov
	Archive	listmanager@naic.nasa.gov body=`index quality'

Charter for 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.

Milestones

Date	Milestone
1 Dec 1995	Submit the operational and technical recommendations Internet-Draft as an Informational RFC.
1 Jul 1995	Submit initial Internet-Drafts addressing operational and technical recommendations for providing maximally reliable information services.
1 Jul 1995	Submit the link failure analysis Internet-Draft as an Informational RFC.
1 Mar 1995	Submit Internet-Draft detailing results of the link failure analysis done in San Jose.

Done milestones

Date	Milestone
Done	Meet at the San Jose IETF, and analyse link failures and their causes.