Re: Fw: wap competitors

This also brings me to the similar question, that if the WAP forum moves
towards XHTML (which i agree is good news), will there be a need for WAP
software which sits between the Web server and the wireless client?

Sandeep

At 15:14 08/04/00 +0530, Kaushik Sridharan wrote:
>> 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.
>
>This certainly seems to be a very sensible thing. I never really figured out
>why they needed to re-invent everything in the first place! I guess some
>work will also be required on the TCP front to accomodate the high latency
>characteristics of wireless networks.
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>If this does really happen, does it mean that all the investments in WML
>microbrowsers and other WAP technologies will be chucked out of the window?
>Do you know what timeline they are looking at for this transition?
>
>Kaushik
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>> > -----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
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, 21 Mar 2000 Set Lonnert wrote:
>> >
>> >  | 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 Saturday, 8 April 2000 09:38:16 UTC