Re: ISSUE-13: Gathering requirements [Messaging API]

On Sep 16, 2009, at 18:31 , <richard.tibbett@orange-ftgroup.com> <richard.tibbett@orange-ftgroup.com 
 > wrote:
> For example, which particular systems should be addressed by this API
> (IM? SMS? MMS? Email? ...Twitter? etc)...or should (and could) the
> Messaging API be agnostic to the underlying messaging system(s) in  
> use?
>
> Any thoughts welcome of course. I'm unclear at the moment as to which
> messaging system this API will address.

I'd say the best approach here is to start with those that matter  
most: SMS and email (and perhaps MMS, but for most useful cases it can  
be treated more or less as an expensive degenerate form of email). I  
wouldn't look at IM at this point, its requirements will be too  
different (though there could be an IM API). Twitter (and a zillion  
other modern services) has a REST API that can already be addressed  
(if you support cross-domain requests).

Once some level of convincing requirements for SMS and email are  
obtained, we can see how much they overlap. Based on that common  
inheritance can work or not.

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Received on Wednesday, 23 September 2009 11:31:50 UTC