"James P. Salsman" wrote:
>
> Apparently WAP is collapsing, both in terms of the general opinion
> of engineers and pundits, and now customer revenues. The Invisible
> Hand needs to slap some sense into the overly-greedy WAP Forum and
> their all-too-pervasive accomplices.
>
> Imode is far more widely used in Japan, as it is a very superior open
> standard that anyone can author and browse on any platform. I would
> ask that everyone in the IETF who cares about these things make an
> informal personal effort to try to get cellular carriers to migrate
> towards a solution like imode. Looking around a Google search on
> "imode" will pretty clearly show how it works.
...
James,
I doubt that you will find support from IETF folks for something that
breaks the end-to-end model of IP (as Imode and WAP do as they are
implemented today). I want to be able to ssh to my phone (or
equivalent). Anything below that is just telephantisms.
Regards,
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