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Re: Is WAP mobile Internet??

2000-07-06 20:40:03
Joe;

SMTP in the Internet is, by definition, over IP. STD1 defined only one
required reliable ordered data stream protocol - TCP.

What is your point?

Are you saying that, in the Internet, there is some application/transport
protocols not over IP but SMTP is exclusively over IP?

Multicast _redefines_ IP (or portions of the address space thereof); it
could be argued that a service provider sells 'Internet' without selling
multicast IP.

See STD1 for a list of "required" protocols.

Multicasting is RFC1112, one of the 'required' protocols.

In RFC 2400, the last STD1 which included information on requirement
levels, it is a "recommended", not "required" protocol.

I wonder why the information is missing in the recent STD1.

                                                        Masataka Ohta



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