On Thu, 22 May 2008 20:48:28 +0200, Carl Snellman
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Just FYI, I'm actually in process of registering well-known SMS ports
for this purpose with IANA, so that interoperability between devices
would be facilitated. If we get the registration through, there would
be two known ports: port X for receiving someones location, and port Y
for receiving a location request from someone.
Below is the email I originally sent to IANA. All comments are welcome!
I also though about getting TCP/UDP ports registered for the same
purposes, but there the biggest problem is identification and
authentication of the sender. With SMS, MSISDN can be quite reliably
used for identifying the sender, but no such identifier exists in
TCP/UDP world. Let me know if you have any ideas/comments on this!
This is exactly why it's not a good idea to register a TCP or UDP port for
it. It's better to use a well-established protocol where authentication
issues have already been solved. I'd recommend to go for an XMPP (Jabber)
protocol extension.
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Alexey Feldgendler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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