- From: Ted Guild <ted@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 16:13:32 -0400
- To: "Galesloot, Matthijs" <matthijs.galesloot@atosorigin.com>
- Cc: www-validator@w3.org
Matthijis, Interesting email, as it happens we are working on plans to build a Validator appliance so one can run their own instance of our validation services, Unicorn and being able to tie into publishing pipeline, run recursive checks, archive reports over time so improvements can be marked etc. We're not ready just yet, perhaps in a couple weeks or so, to post those plans publicly just yet. When we do we will seek input on functionality from the community and invitation to participate in a number of ways. Regarding your questions. We have an excessive amount of Validation processing which consumes quite a bit of resources, machines, bandwidth, developer and sysad. In order to keep this service available to the broader community we have to impose some rate limits. As such it would certainly be better to not point this at our servers but run their own. We found people are reluctant to run their own instances, hence part of the motivation for the appliance idea. If your software is pointing towards our servers please ensure that it sends a unique user-agent HTTP header and kindly let us know what it is. We have had other software projects utilizing our services directly, some have been problematic for us based on what the derived application does or how it is implemented. Thanks for being considerate and contacting us in advance of releasing the software. Regards, -- Ted Guild <ted@w3.org> W3C Systems Team http://www.w3.org
Received on Tuesday, 26 October 2010 20:13:45 UTC