On Mon 2019-04-22 15:51:40+0000 Paul wrote:
In the calls, there appeared to be mostly confusion about why we were being asked about the RSS metrics. If a concrete use case in the 037/038 realm was given, I don't remember it. What I do remember is the confusion, which often boiled down to "if a resolver can consistently get acceptable answers from even one RSO, what the RSS as a whole looks like becomes immaterial to that resolver, so measuring the RSS seems unnecessary".
I don't know if we can 'measure' the RSS, but we can certainly evaluate it based on the measurements gathered from all of the RSOs. The idea that "if a resolver can consistently get acceptable answers from even one RSO [then everything is ok]" idea was one that I was a proponent of as related to the question of whether or not the RSS as a whole was "online". I think there should be another metric, along the lines for "What is the state of the RSS as a whole". This could be a status (Green / Yellow / Orange / Red) based on N of M RSOs responding in a timely and correct manner. -- Robert Story <http://www.isi.edu/~rstory> USC Information Sciences Institute <http://www.isi.edu/>