Re: Mobile Multimedia Messaging Service

[Dave Crocker]

At 08:12 AM 9/16/00 -0400, vint cerf wrote:
>would it be useful, in the context of establishing peer-to-peer communications
>(or even client/server communications) with limited-function mobile devices,
>to use SIP as a framework for negotiating the parameters that should guide the
>nature of the exchange? I'm thinking, for instance, of a web server that may
>usefully discover the functional limits of a mobile before it starts to send
>content to that device. The mobile uses SIP to report to the server that it
>has X amount of memory, Y amount of display area, color or not, average
>data rate it can send or receive, and so on. This information would be used
>by the server to configure what it sends to be compatible with the receiving
>unit.
>
>perhaps this is an idea that is already being pursued in an IETF working 
>group?


The Content Negotiation work would cover this sort of exchange, I believe.

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