HML in applications

[s.livingstone@btinternet.com]

has there been any talk of HML being employed in areas that aren't directly shown to a user?

I was thinking that quite a lot of the HML ideas could be application to appliction service communication.

For example, one service broker could indicate to service requesters the relative "happiness" of the sites it may call. This could be used for sites under stress or low n capacity. Even cultural aspects could be potentially itntroduced, such as "i [the service] am in the US and as it is 9AM, i am under serious stress".

There are quite a few areas that i oculd see this working, but maybe i'm getting out of scope !?

cheers,
steven