RE: Fw: wap competitors

On Fri, 7 Apr 2000, Josh Cohen wrote:
  | Just as a reference, the WAP forum's next generation
  | protocols and architecture groups are examining this 
  | very issue.
What about backward compatibility with existing
services/wap-phones? Another issue is if the new (NG) wap-phones will also
support the existing one.

  | 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.
I guess that converging the next version of WML with the XHTML standard
may not be a huge obstacle. But what about building all of TCP's
functionallity in a WAP-phone? Are there any pointers to studies/analuses
of what this could mean to performance?

I know that there are people around that vision to watch the next World
Cup final in a live feed through their 3G wap-phone ;-) How do you plan to
make this possible with all the ugly implications (power consumption, no
multicast, lower throughput etc.)?

 /Kostas

Received on Tuesday, 11 April 2000 18:06:34 UTC