Re: Is WAP mobile Internet??

[Masataka Ohta]

Joe;

> SMTP in the Internet is, by definition, over IP. STD1 defined only one
> required reliable ordered data stream protocol - TCP.

What is your point?

Are you saying that, in the Internet, there is some application/transport
protocols not over IP but SMTP is exclusively over IP?

> > > Multicast _redefines_ IP (or portions of the address space thereof); it
> > > could be argued that a service provider sells 'Internet' without selling
> > > multicast IP.
> > 
> > See STD1 for a list of "required" protocols.
> 
> Multicasting is RFC1112, one of the 'required' protocols.

In RFC 2400, the last STD1 which included information on requirement
levels, it is a "recommended", not "required" protocol.

I wonder why the information is missing in the recent STD1.

                                                        Masataka Ohta