On 15 April 2010 13:22, Edward C. Zimmermann <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> The question is less that one might want to relate something but the semantics
> of what one is relating unless its purely private--- and then its not trying
> to relate to anyone but only itself.
>
> What does a number mean and what do the differences in the numbers mean? And
> unless my numbers and your numbers have nothing to do with one another nor the
> numbers of anyone else they need to have some shared models and references.
>
> Defining these would, I think, be more difficult (and long winded) than
> creating a common service monitoring network and metrics (which would evolve
> over time in response to shared experiences).
No-one is going to do that. Let's stop fooling ourselves.
A simple number from 0-100 -- that we can probably handle. Ask for
more, and who has the time to do that work unfunded (or the time to
apply for funding?) If there is one lesson we should have learned
from the NUMEROUS attempts at Explain over the years, it's that it is
very, very vulnerable to over-engineering. Aim too high -- even a
little too high -- and we hit nothing at all.
>
>
> On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 09:51:48 +0100, John Harrison wrote
>> On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 23:06 +0100, Peter Noerr wrote:
>>
>> > What I'm really questioning is whether a zeerex response from a Source is
> the right place for this information - whatever it is.
>>
>> Mike's original request/proposal was to add an index for some
>> measure of reliability/responsiveness to the ZeeRex context set -
>> NOT the ZeeRex record schema.
>>
>> I've not seen any convincing arguments against this - in fact the
>> conversations about how such a measure of reliability/responsiveness
>> might be calculated seem to indicate that this would be useful.
>>
>> John
>>
>> > In one very real sense it is the right place, because then each Source can
> decide for itself if it wants to obtain and make available this information.
> But then each Source has to set up some external measuring point to get the
> information, and the method of getting it back, and storing it. Not difficult,
> but another thing to set up, maintain and manage.
>> >
>> > To make this easier it might be interesting to consider a "query mirror"
> server, which the Source could send a query message to, and which would bounce
> the message back to the Source. The dumber it is the better, so the Source can
> handle its own authentication and API/protocol/language issues with the mirror
> needing to know nothing about them. And a dumb query mirror could be easily
> deployed at many locations to handle traffic for many Sources. Possibly as a
> SRU server add-on? (The old psychiatrists joke "You're fine, how am I?" comes
> to mind.)
>> >
>> > Peter
>> >
>> >
>> > > -----Original Message-----
>> > > From: SRU (Search and Retrieve Via URL) Implementors
>> > > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Edward C. Zimmermann
>> > > Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 6:46 AM
>> > > To: [log in to unmask]
>> > > Subject: Re: Add "reliability" index to CQL's "zeerex" context set
>> > >
>> > > That's the point of "global" service monitoring...
>> > >
>> > > Running search to ones own targets in ones own networks does not need
>> > > it.. but
>> > > also it a club house.. ZeeRex/Explain is about going beyond the private
>> > > club.
>> > >
>> > > On Wed, 14 Apr 2010 09:01:15 -0400, Ross Singer wrote
>> > > > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 6:51 AM, Mike Taylor <[log in to unmask]>
>> > > wrote:
>> > > > > Peter, we didn't envisage this as something that servers self-
>> > > report,
>> > > > > but as something measured from the outside. To a client, it's
>> > > > > irrelevant whether a server is running off a UPS, for example: all
>> > > we
>> > > > > care about is whether we can contact and search in and retrieve
>> > > from
>> > > > > the server.
>> > > >
>> > > > On the flip-side, though, if something's wrong between you and that
>> > > > particular service (let's say a DNS server in your network goes
>> > > > haywire and intermittently forgets certain domains, or something),
>> > > > this service's reliability is tarnished through no fault of its own.
>> > > > Or, let's say, for example, your ISP has decided that service X
>> > > > hasn't paid enough of a toll to get priority to its customers...
>> > > >
>> > > > -Ross.
>> > >
>> > >
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