Speakers - WAP CONVENTION - The European Event

2000-06-30 Thread Rosie Drugeault
We are currently inviting Speaker applications for:   WAP CONVENTION 2000 - Mobile Services -   The European Event has been scheduled for:   21 + 22 November, 2000 Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie PARIS   The current Mobile Internet market explosion is without comparison. Widespread

Is WAP mobile Internet??

2000-06-30 Thread Lars-Erik Jonsson
Hi Folks!! I would like to hear your opinions about how WAP people often say that WAP is "mobile Internet". In my opinion, WAP is NOT mobile Internet at all. The Internet is built on the e2e principle and based on the Internet Protocols, which WAP is not. I can not tell people that they should no

Re: Speakers - WAP CONVENTION - The European Event

2000-06-30 Thread Jon Knight
I might be missing something here but weren't mobile phones around for years before they became as ubiquituous as they are now? Tatty bye, Jim'll

RE: Is WAP mobile Internet??

2000-06-30 Thread Parkinson, Jonathan
Okay WAP at the moment is only in its baby stage, hence a few mobile phones have it and a few other devices, and yes at the moment its not very good, but that's because of the current technology. I know I keep going on about it, but, I'm sure Bluetooth can and will change the way people use WAP an

Re: Is WAP mobile Internet??

2000-06-30 Thread Patrik Fältström
At 13.54 +0200 00-06-30, Lars-Erik Jonsson wrote: >I would like to hear your opinions about how WAP people often say that WAP is >"mobile Internet". Well, Ericsson do in their ads :-) :-) (I say to a person at Ericsson). From my point of view, you can (through a proxy service) access (some) In

Re: WAP - What A Problem...

2000-06-30 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 30 Jun 2000 00:41:37 +0200, Anthony Atkielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > If they are that lacking in mere wires, they probably aren't in a position > to profit from access to the Internet in the first place. That is, if they > lack telephones (and that's all they need for broadband, or

Re: WAP - What A Problem...

2000-06-30 Thread Alan Simpkins
Valdis, I agree with you a hundred percent. The most expensive part of infrastructure is pulling the cables/fiber necessary to build the infrastrucuture. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, 30 Jun 2000 00:41:37 +0200, Anthony > Atkielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > If they are that lacking

Re: WAP - What A Problem...

2000-06-30 Thread Jon Crowcroft
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alan Simpkins t yped: >>Valdis, I agree with you a hundred percent. The most >>expensive part of infrastructure is pulling the >>cables/fiber necessary to build the infrastrucuture. thats why intelsat and a cosortium of telcos has a charity that built a box th

Re: WAP - What A Problem...

2000-06-30 Thread Anthony Atkielski
> thats why intelsat and a cosortium of telcos has > a charity that built a box that is solar powered > and provides n gsm phones access + 1 64kbps uplink/ > downlink to geostatinary atellites So that's what, 64/5 = 13 kbps per user? Even as current Internet designs require ever more bandwidth a

Re: WAP - What A Problem...

2000-06-30 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 30 Jun 2000 19:12:26 +0200, Anthony Atkielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Anyway, I have a really good instinct for picking technology winners, and > thus far I put WAP in the same category as MiniDiscs, bubble memory, color > fax machines, and quadraphonic sound. I think the growth area

Re: WAP - What A Problem...

2000-06-30 Thread Jim_Stephenson-Dunn
-- Forwarded by Jim Stephenson-Dunn/C/HQ/3Com on 06/30/2000 11:24 AM --- sent by: Jim Stephenson-Dunn - Network Engineer, GIS LAN/WAN To: Alan Simpkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Anthony Atkielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[

Re: RFC 2862 on RTP Payload Format for Real-Time Pointers

2000-06-30 Thread Robert G. Ferrell
>A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries. > > >RFC 2862 > >Title: RTP Payload Format for Real-Time Pointers >Author(s): M. Civanlar, G. Cash >Status: Standards Track > Date: June 2000 >Mailbox:[EMAIL PROTE

FAQ: The IETF+Censored list

2000-06-30 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
The IETF+Censored mailing list At times, the IETF list is subject to debates that have little to do with the purposes for which the IETF list was created. Some people would appreciate a "quieter" forum for the relevant debat

Re: Is WAP mobile Internet??

2000-06-30 Thread Renfield Kuroda
I don't think WAP Mobile Internet any more than TCP/IP is Internet. The Mobile Internet is data/communication devices you carry around with you. Here in Japan we have 8 million non-WAP mobile internet users, plus another 2 million WAP users, and the numbers are exploding. But, and I know this may

Re: WAP - What A Problem...

2000-06-30 Thread Renfield Kuroda
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, 30 Jun 2000 19:12:26 +0200, Anthony Atkielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Anyway, I have a really good instinct for picking technology winners, and > > thus far I put WAP in the same category as MiniDiscs, bubble memory, color > > fax machines, and quadrapho

Fault Tolerant in Active Network

2000-06-30 Thread Sam . Ng
i'm thinking about fault tolerant in active network, the following is my thinking Since active network is to allow network to provide computation platform, the user can input the program ( application specific customerised program) to the active network and let the nodes to perform computa

Re: Is WAP mobile Internet??

2000-06-30 Thread Masataka Ohta
r e n; > I don't think WAP Mobile Internet any more than TCP/IP is Internet. There is no such thing as WAP Mobile Internet. > The Mobile Internet is data/communication devices you carry around with you. > > Here in Japan we have 8 million non-WAP mobile internet users, plus another 2 > million