[MOBY-dev] Service quality and availability data

[mwilkinson]

I don't think that this is going to be part of the spec itself. It's a bit too high-level to be part of the discovery system, but could potentially be a layer over MOBY central.  It would be like asking Google to access the webite itself first before reporting the search results :-)  We might (not as part of the spec) monitor which services are most often chosen and present them first in the result list, however, as part of the behaviour of the Perl instance of the registry.

M
-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Wakefield <matthew.wakefield at anu.edu.au>
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 17:50:02 
To:moby-dev at biomoby.org
Subject: [MOBY-dev] Service quality and availability data

In a discussion of BioMoby the issue of service overloading and outages 
was discussed.  The situation raised was in the context of two BLAST 
servers, one on a 486 in mongolia, and the other NCBI.  Is there any 
planned way to differentiate these services to the naive BioMoby user?

The more complicated extension of this was also raised, the case of two 
identical services where one is being pounded on a given day and the 
other is idle.  Is there any plan to advertise the current status of a 
service in any way?

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