On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Jon Crowcroft wrote:
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> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Maha
> devan Iyer typed:
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> >>
> >>On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Barathy, RamaSubramaniam wrote:
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> >>> Hello Everybody,
> >>>
> >>> Would it not be nice to have some sort of quality control task force that
> >>> assigns a quality level for the web sites through out the world.
> >>>
> >>> This would make the site developers to bring in the higher quality to the
> >>> net.
> >>> This could be used as an additional criteria in the search engines.
> >>> This could make higher quality sites to be a revenue generator.
> >>>
> >>> With more and more web sites, we r getting lost in finding quality
> >>> information.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>What quality of a web site are you referring to?
> >>Quality of service or Quality of Content? The latter is subjective.
>
> so is the former.
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Yes, but not to the same degree as the latter.
Of course, subjectivity of qos depends on multiple factors, such as data
type, and whether the end user is a human or a computer program.
Quality of audio-visual images presented to a human may be subjective, but
not say, a rocket coordinate which is input to a control program.
(Not that anyone would want to control rockets using the internet :) )
Mahadevan.
