RE: IP over MIME (was Re: WAP Is A Trap -- Reject WAP)

2000-06-26 Thread Dan Kohn
PROTECTED] Subject: RE: IP over MIME (was Re: WAP Is A Trap -- Reject WAP) All, I have seen a lot of different people bash WAP over the past two days. However, I am a firm believer that WAP will become what IP is to us today. When you relate the technologies of today and the future technologies

RE: IP over MIME (was Re: WAP Is A Trap -- Reject WAP)

2000-06-24 Thread Bob Wise
nning [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 10, 2893 4:44 PM To: Steve Deering Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: IP over MIME (was Re: WAP Is A Trap -- Reject WAP) % % At 4:16 PM -0400 6/21/00, Bri

RE: WAP Is A Trap -- Reject WAP

2000-06-23 Thread Mohsen BANAN-Public
On Wed, 21 Jun 2000 11:05:43 -0400, "Brijesh Kumar" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Brijesh PS: By the way, ReFLEX is perfectly fine for two way messaging Brijesh applications. Mohsen No. Mohsen Mohsen ReFLEX is not perfectly fine. Mohsen Mohsen It is not IP based. Brijesh Hi

Re: IP over MIME (was Re: WAP Is A Trap -- Reject WAP)

2000-06-22 Thread Patrik Fältström
At 18.23 -0700 00-06-21, Bill Manning wrote: Did the IESG depricate IP over Avian Carrier when I blinked? And the draft on IP over seismic waves is due any day now. Don't forget 1926 An Experimental Encapsulation of IP Datagrams on Top of ATM. J. Eriksson. April 1996.

Re: WAP Is A Trap -- Reject WAP

2000-06-22 Thread Masataka Ohta
Mohsen; Masataka WAP and IP over NAT are equally bad. We have two sets of problems and layering helps here. At layer 3, we need to make things end-to-end. At layer 7, the WAP approach is simply the wrong approach. I'm operating on all the layers. We need competition in the

Re: IP over MIME (was Re: WAP Is A Trap -- Reject WAP)

2000-06-22 Thread Magnus Danielson
From: Patrik Fältström [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: IP over MIME (was Re: WAP Is A Trap -- Reject WAP) Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 14:02:56 +0200 At 13.37 +0200 00-06-22, Magnus Danielson wrote: 1926 An Experimental Encapsulation of IP Datagrams on Top of ATM. J. Eriksson. April 1996

Re: IP over MIME (was Re: WAP Is A Trap -- Reject WAP)

2000-06-22 Thread John Stracke
Bill Manning wrote: And the draft on IP over seismic waves is due any day now. Security Considerations: since the most effective way to generate seismic waves is with a nuclear device, users of this protocol can expect to be secured by their governments for a very long time. --

Re: IP over MIME (was Re: WAP Is A Trap -- Reject WAP)

2000-06-22 Thread Magnus Danielson
From: John Stracke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: IP over MIME (was Re: WAP Is A Trap -- Reject WAP) Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 09:03:12 -0400 Bill Manning wrote: And the draft on IP over seismic waves is due any day now. Security Considerations: since the most effective way

Re: IP over MIME (was Re: WAP Is A Trap -- Reject WAP)

2000-06-22 Thread Matt Crawford
Did the IESG depricate IP over Avian Carrier when I blinked? And the draft on IP over seismic waves is due any day now. Consider the possibilities of a neutrino beam -- no media costs and lower latency than direct point-to-point fiber.

Re: IP over MIME (was Re: WAP Is A Trap -- Reject WAP)

2000-06-22 Thread Eric Brunner
I have seen a lot of different people bash WAP over the past two days. However, I am a firm believer that WAP will become what IP is to us today. How nice to have firm belief-systems. What I write here are only my personal opinions. I posted Rohit's tour of the tangle when I was at Nokia

Re: IP over MIME (was Re: WAP Is A Trap -- Reject WAP)

2000-06-22 Thread Chuck Kaekel
It's my understanding that disturbances in The Force were actually routed using an ancient precursor to IP. C_ At 09:57 AM 6/22/00 -0500, Matt Crawford wrote: Did the IESG depricate IP over Avian Carrier when I blinked? And the draft on IP over seismic waves is due any day now.

RE: IP over MIME (was Re: WAP Is A Trap -- Reject WAP)

2000-06-22 Thread Brijesh Kumar
Chuck writes, It's my understanding that disturbances in The Force were actually routed using an ancient precursor to IP. I don't know about it, but the myth goes that ET communicated with his folks using IP :-). The captured packet trace is "UndecodableDatalink:IPheader:TCPheader:"ET go

RE: IP over MIME (was Re: WAP Is A Trap -- Reject WAP)

2000-06-22 Thread Lee John-W15376
nice call --john -Original Message- From: Brijesh Kumar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2000 3:18 PM To: 'Chuck Kaekel'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: IP over MIME (was Re: WAP Is A Trap -- Reject WAP) Chuck writes, It's my understanding

Re: WAP Is A Trap -- Reject WAP

2000-06-22 Thread Mohsen BANAN-Public
On Tue, 20 Jun 2000 19:02:39 +0100 (BST), Lloyd Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Lloyd And from that anti-WAP polemic: Mohsen We gratefully acknowledge the assistance of the Mohsen following persons in the preparation and review of Mohsen this document: Andrew Hammoude, Richard

Re: IP over MIME (was Re: WAP Is A Trap -- Reject WAP)

2000-06-22 Thread Masataka Ohta
Bill Manning wrote: And the draft on IP over seismic waves is due any day now. Security Considerations: since the most effective way to generate seismic waves is with a nuclear device, users of this protocol can expect to be secured by their governments for a very long

RE: IP over MIME (was Re: WAP Is A Trap -- Reject WAP)

2000-06-22 Thread Mahadevan Iyer
Probably, there is some universe out there made of AnTi-Matter and where anti-packets are mostly routed using anti-IP, or in other words...ATM. :) On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Brijesh Kumar wrote: Chuck writes, It's my understanding that disturbances in The Force were actually routed using

Re: WAP Is A Trap -- Reject WAP

2000-06-21 Thread Magnus Danielson
From: Masataka Ohta [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: WAP Is A Trap -- Reject WAP Date: Wed, 21 Jun 0 5:42:32 JST Phil; IP over NAT is, in no way, end-to-end. WAP and IP over NAT are equally bad. I think you're overstating your case. Yes, IP over NAT is bad, but it's nowhere near

IP over MIME (was Re: WAP Is A Trap -- Reject WAP)

2000-06-21 Thread Donald E. Eastlake 3rd
PROTECTED] Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 10:40:40 +0200 From: Masataka Ohta [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: WAP Is A Trap -- Reject WAP Date: Wed, 21 Jun 0 5:42:32 JST Phil; IP over NAT is, in no way, end-to-end. WAP and IP over NAT are equally bad. I think you're

Re: IP over MIME (was Re: WAP Is A Trap -- Reject WAP)

2000-06-21 Thread Magnus Danielson
From: "Donald E. Eastlake 3rd" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: IP over MIME (was Re: WAP Is A Trap -- Reject WAP) Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 07:31:06 -0400 See ftp://ftp.ietf.org//internet-drafts/draft-eastlake-ip-mime-03.txt. For once people could spend some time reading the security cons

RE: WAP Is A Trap -- Reject WAP

2000-06-21 Thread Brijesh Kumar
Mohsen writes: Brijesh PS: By the way, ReFLEX is perfectly fine for two way messaging Brijesh applications. No. ReFLEX is not perfectly fine. It is not IP based. Hi Mohsen, What kind of argument is this? If it is not IP based it is not good ! This is an emotional response, not a

RE: IP over MIME (was Re: WAP Is A Trap -- Reject WAP)

2000-06-21 Thread Taylor, Johnny
, 2000 7:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: IP over MIME (was Re: WAP Is A Trap -- Reject WAP) See ftp://ftp.ietf.org//internet-drafts/draft-eastlake-ip-mime-03.txt. Donald From: Magnus Danielson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: IP over MIME (was Re: WAP Is A Trap -- Reject WAP)

2000-06-21 Thread Parkinson, Jonathan
over MIME (was Re: WAP Is A Trap -- Reject WAP) All, I have seen a lot of different people bash WAP over the past two days. However, I am a firm believer that WAP will become what IP is to us today. When you relate the technologies of today and the future technologies from a Telecommunication

Re: WAP Is A Trap -- Reject WAP

2000-06-21 Thread Dennis Glatting
I haven't read the WAP technical documents but I am struggling with the concept of a protocol created by the WAP Forum being secure and without snooping features. (I don't consider WTLS significant, rather a feel good measure.) Would someone more knowledgeable on WAP and their security model

RE: IP over MIME (was Re: WAP Is A Trap -- Reject WAP)

2000-06-21 Thread Brijesh Kumar
Keith Moore writes: -Original Message- WAP might evolve into something more useful, but I don't see how it will replace IP in any sense. One is an architecture for supporting application on diverse wireless systems, and other is a network layer packet transport mechanism. Two

Re: IP over MIME (was Re: WAP Is A Trap -- Reject WAP)

2000-06-21 Thread John Stracke
Brijesh Kumar wrote: The size of display has nothing to do with it. Ah, so that's why WAP uses standard HTML? -- /\ |John Stracke| http://www.ecal.com |My opinions are my own. | |Chief Scientist

Re: IP over MIME (was Re: WAP Is A Trap -- Reject WAP)

2000-06-21 Thread Keith Moore
WAP might evolve into something more useful, but I don't see how it will replace IP in any sense. One is an architecture for supporting application on diverse wireless systems, and other is a network layer packet transport mechanism. Two aren't even comparable. the two are comperable in

Re: IP over MIME (was Re: WAP Is A Trap -- Reject WAP)

2000-06-21 Thread Mark Atwood
"Brijesh Kumar" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: WAP's goal is not to replace IP, but mediate between non-IP wireless devices, and existing IP based wire line applications. So then obvious the Right Thing is to put an IP stack on each of those devices. Then such "mediation" is unnecessary. --

RE: IP over MIME (was Re: WAP Is A Trap -- Reject WAP)

2000-06-21 Thread Steve Deering
At 4:16 PM -0400 6/21/00, Brijesh Kumar wrote: WAP's goal is not to replace IP, but mediate between non-IP wireless devices, and existing IP based wire line applications. There are no "IP based wire line applications". Applications based on IP don't depend on, or know, or care that their

Re: IP over MIME (was Re: WAP Is A Trap -- Reject WAP)

2000-06-21 Thread Bill Manning
% % At 4:16 PM -0400 6/21/00, Brijesh Kumar wrote: % WAP's goal is not to replace IP, but mediate between non-IP wireless % devices, and existing IP based wire line applications. % % There are no "IP based wire line applications". Applications based on IP % don't depend on, or know, or care

Re: IP over MIME (was Re: WAP Is A Trap -- Reject WAP)

2000-06-21 Thread Randy Bush
WAP's goal is not to replace IP, but mediate between non-IP wireless devices, and existing IP based wire line applications. So then obvious the Right Thing is to put an IP stack on each of those devices. Then such "mediation" is unnecessary. but there may not be enough room in the 640k

RE: WAP Is A Trap -- Reject WAP

2000-06-20 Thread Brijesh Kumar
Mohsen Banan, I tried hard to agree what you said - but many inaccuracies and assumptions made in the article made my task so hard that I had to finally give up reading it. Having spent last several years in the wireless industry, and also having written some "not-so-open" as you say, but widely

Re: WAP Is A Trap -- Reject WAP

2000-06-20 Thread Phil Karn
I've worked in the wireless data field for a long time, first in amateur packet radio, then on CDMA digital cellular at Qualcomm. Naturally, what I say here are only my personal opinions. I also scratched my head when WAP came out. It just didn't make any technical sense. I see I'm not the only

Re: WAP Is A Trap -- Reject WAP

2000-06-20 Thread Masataka Ohta
Phil; The best defense against WAP is an open handheld platform that allows end users (and independent vendors and open-source developers) to run applications and network protocols of their own choice. As long as the service providers support IP (perhaps in addition to WAP), the open

Re: WAP Is A Trap -- Reject WAP

2000-06-20 Thread Phil Karn
IP over NAT is, in no way, end-to-end. WAP and IP over NAT are equally bad. I think you're overstating your case. Yes, IP over NAT is bad, but it's nowhere near as bad as WAP. I don't meant to defend NAT, but many/most existing Internet protocols and applications do work over it with few if any

Re: WAP Is A Trap -- Reject WAP

2000-06-20 Thread Masataka Ohta
Phil; IP over NAT is, in no way, end-to-end. WAP and IP over NAT are equally bad. I think you're overstating your case. Yes, IP over NAT is bad, but it's nowhere near as bad as WAP. If you think so, don't say "end-to-end". If you want, it is still possible to "reconstruct" a true

Re: WAP Is A Trap -- Reject WAP

2000-06-20 Thread John Stracke
Phil Karn wrote: If you want, it is still possible to "reconstruct" a true end-to-end IP service by tunneling it through a NAT with something vaguely resembling mobile IP. Such a scheme would probably use UDP or TCP as its encapsulation wrapper so the NAT would have port numbers to keep it

RE: WAP Is A Trap -- Reject WAP

2000-06-20 Thread Mohsen BANAN-Public
On Tue, 20 Jun 2000 10:30:31 -0400, "Brijesh Kumar" [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Brijesh It is an open secret that wireless industry is a closed cartel of Brijesh three super heavyweights (Motorola, Ericsson, and Nokia) and two heavy Brijesh weights (Lucent and Nortel). There is no role for

Re: WAP Is A Trap -- Reject WAP

2000-06-20 Thread Mohsen BANAN-Public
On Wed, 21 Jun 2000 04:59:15 +0859 (), Masataka Ohta [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The Internet end-to-end model will once again prevail, putting the cellular service providers back into their proper place as providers of packet pipes, nothing more. And life will be good again. :-)