From: Doug Royer (jse.judsahj@relay.tunkki.fi)
Date: Tue Apr 04 2000 - 23:49:35 EEST
> Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 15:53:16 -0700
> From: "Shawn T. Rutledge" <afqxbrm@univ-orleans.fr>
> To: qxtshpnj.rstejt@maxiweb.com.br
> Subject: Re: Wireless Application Protocol
>
> On Sun, Apr 02, 2000 at 01:26:37PM -0700, Doug Royer wrote:
> > 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.
> Anyway... yes it does seem like many Internet protocols are not optimized
> for packet operation. SMTP is a really good example; the sender expects
> to carry on a verbose, real-time conversation directly with the recipient,
> regardless how many hops are between, where a store-and-forward scheme
> makes more sense on just about any network, not just the most unreliable
> ones. ...
See draft-freed-smtp-pipe-01.txt
Available from
ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-freed-smtp-pipe-01.txt
> I've also grown fond of another idea I read about a couple weeks ago...
>
You should visit www.ietf.org and start suggesting.
-Doug
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