Has anyone looked at the deails of the WAP protocol and its potential in
the ham radio medium? It looks like we could benefit from this work. The
following is a quote from
http://www.sunworld.com/sunworldonline/swol-01-2000/f_swol-01-connectivity.html
"Unlike most computers, which use protocols such as HTTP over TCP over IP
to access the Web, Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) has its own
protocols that operate in a format more natural for wireless delivery. All
WAP Internet connections still have to go through a gateway that connects
the two protocols, but the gateway itself can add other services that
optimize communications.
WAP is designed to handle higher latencies, unpredictable service
availability, unpredictable connection stability, and lower bandwidth, all
of which present problems for wireless communication. In particular,
instability, service availability, and latency problems make it hard to
maintain connection-oriented services like TCP, which means most Internet
applications that use TCP as their delivery mechanism won't work reliably
on a wireless network. Thus the need for WAP."
The WAP technical papers can be found at
http://www.wapforum.org/
73,
-- Edson, N1VTN, PU1JTE
