The largest problem with WAP is that they are now concerned that
they have made a big mistake - they want the internet protocols
so that they can interoperate with the internet. So they are
backtracking and going with IP protocols.
The WAP version of http is a super-sub-set of the real HTTP. They
pulled out some features of HTTP and added WAP specific ones.
Now they can not interoperate with real HTTP. So most of the
vendors are bending to customer requests to be internet compatable.
I hope the HAM community does not make the same mistakes.
I just got back from an IETF (http://www.ietf.org) meeting in
Australia. Several hours were dedicated to WAP and wireless discussions.
The feeling is that the state of the art is moving forward and
WAP only solved past technical problems.
-Doug
> Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 13:46:48 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Edson Pereira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Wireless Application Protocol
>
> 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
>
-Doug
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