Audit-based Web Metering Clause Samples

Audit-based Web Metering. ‌ In this model, there is an audit agency in a strong position that has control over the webserver, the visitor or both. The audit agency can enforce requirements or policies on the webserver or the visitor. Also, depending on the scheme, the audit agency can capture the web interaction or information at either entities. The difference between visitor-centric or webserver-centric models to this one is the shift of scheme control to the audit agency. The advantage of audit-based model is that web metering scheme is relatively simple, because it exists at the audit agency that enforces required metering op- erations at the webserver and the visitor. The extreme end of this model can make the web metering problem trivially solved as both the visitor and the webserver are willing to be controlled by a third party. In such conditions, where an audit agency controls other entities, the environment is special and may not apply to Internet visits. Figure 3.7 shows the protocol flow for audit-based model. The dotted line denotes that the audit agency can access web interaction information. Chapter 4‌