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Re: WAP Is A Trap -- Reject WAP

2000-06-20 14:30:02
Masataka Ohta wrote:

You can have IP over HTTP, IP over XML or IP over WAP equally easily.

The problem, however, is that the reconstruction point is an
intelligent gateway which violates the end to end principle.

Mmm, how so? I'd see it as a router, which just happens to run over a
higher-level protocol than most.  Not a great design, but it does (can)
give you end-to-end IP.

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