Quality Information Services (quis)
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 Charter 
 Last Modified: 29-Jul-97
 
 Current Status: Concluded Working Group
 
 Chair(s):
     April Marine <amarine@george.arc.nasa.gov>
      Mitra <mitra@earth.path.net>
 
 Applications Area Director(s): 
     Keith Moore  <moore+iesg@cs.utk.edu>
     Harald Alvestrand  <Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no>
 
 Applications Area Advisor: 
     Keith Moore  <moore+iesg@cs.utk.edu>
 
 Technical Advisor(s):
     Erik Huizer  <Erik.Huizer@sec.nl>
 
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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.