RE: Fw: wap competitors

Just as a reference, the WAP forum's next generation
protocols and architecture groups are examining this 
very issue.
With a high level goal of convergence with the Internet,
they are exploring moving to Internet protocols.
Similar to what you mention, the introduction of
TCP as a transport and XHTML as a markup language
are on the table.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kostas Pentikousis [mailto:kostas@cs.sunysb.edu]
> Sent: Friday, April 07, 2000 5:29 AM
> To: www-mobile@w3.org
> Subject: Re: Fw: wap competitors 
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> On Tue, 21 Mar 2000 Set Lonnert wrote:
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>  | think of instead of having WML you could have SVG? Or 
> XHTM? Ok, keep the
>  | UDP, but skip the rest of the stack. Why a compleatly new stack of
>  | communication?
> And why use UDP anyway? One would need some reliability in 
> the transfers
> after all. Taking the reliable transmission from the 
> transport layer maybe
> is not a good idea. 
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> /Kostas
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Received on Friday, 7 April 2000 19:02:10 UTC