Some hosting services monitor their tenants' activity for things like communicating with known malware or phishing sites. Currently, because Perspectives queries any service (site) that a user visits these queries can generate alerts or flag notary servers as suspicious. Even if a notary server is not running on a hosted site, the owner may wish to prevent some services from being scanned.
A feature like this would also allow us to remove old or broken services if they no longer exist or scans return some kind of persistent failure, saving time by avoiding pointless scans.
Some hosting services monitor their tenants' activity for things like communicating with known malware or phishing sites. Currently, because Perspectives queries any service (site) that a user visits these queries can generate alerts or flag notary servers as suspicious. Even if a notary server is not running on a hosted site, the owner may wish to prevent some services from being scanned.
We may want to add some way to prevent scans of certain services. I'm a big fan of the idea that you should enumerate goodness rather than enumerating badness (see idea 2). We may want to implement this as a whitelist rather than a blacklist.
A feature like this would also allow us to remove old or broken services if they no longer exist or scans return some kind of persistent failure, saving time by avoiding pointless scans.