Re: http://www.w3.org/2008/02/MS4D_WS/papers/unicef-w3c-presentation.html

Hello Kai


> I had time this evening to carefully read
> http://www.w3.org/2008/02/MS4D_WS/papers/unicef-w3c-presentation.html
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> There is no mention of SMS services ever being moved to the Web. Is
> there another case study where this scenario ever happened?


Yes. The open-source SMS gateway Kannel provides this functionality.


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> At the bottom of the "SMS Constraints" section there is an incorrect
> comparison of SMS and the Web. The Web is also stateless.


The comparison is regarding Web-applications, which often maintain user
state with cookies or login credentials.


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> Are there any Web<->SMS bridges? Where people can write a message like:
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> "GET w3.org" to a fictitious short code 31337
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> and get the latest entry on http://www.w3.org/2000/08/w3c-synd/home.rss ?


Nothing precisely like that exists, to my knowledge, but creating such a
service with a tool like Kannel would be relatively easy.


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> I'm trying to map SMS to the Web if we are really stuck with SMS.
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> Kind regards,
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