relation to server-sent events and other notification architectures

hello.

it seems to me that the main purpose of this new working group is to 
define an API that covers the local delivery of notifications. is there 
any information on how that relates to more end-to-end oriented specs 
such as HTML5's server-sent events, or maybe other notification services 
that a platform might support such as apple's push notifications or 
google's CTDM service? i am just trying to figure out the scope of the 
working group and how it will decide on what the APIs will eventually 
deliver in terms of the underlying interaction model and the possible 
payload carried in notifications.

thanks and kind regards,

erik wilde   tel:+1-510-6432253 - fax:+1-510-6425814
        dret@berkeley.edu  -  http://dret.net/netdret
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