Not sure if it is relevant but i-mode is working on an end-to-end IP
system now which will be deploy sometime next year.
One of the original reason that i-mode didnt go pure IP is they couldnt
get enough IP address for it (they designed i-mode to handle 6M users
originally) and that is quite huge for APNIC.
-James Seng
Måns Nilsson wrote:
"James P. Salsman" wrote:
Apparently WAP is collapsing, both in terms of the general opinion
of engineers and pundits, and now customer revenues. The Invisible
Hand needs to slap some sense into the overly-greedy WAP Forum and
their all-too-pervasive accomplices.
Imode is far more widely used in Japan, as it is a very superior open
standard that anyone can author and browse on any platform. I would
ask that everyone in the IETF who cares about these things make an
informal personal effort to try to get cellular carriers to migrate
towards a solution like imode. Looking around a Google search on
"imode" will pretty clearly show how it works.
...
James,
I doubt that you will find support from IETF folks for something that
breaks the end-to-end model of IP (as Imode and WAP do as they are
implemented today). I want to be able to ssh to my phone (or
equivalent). Anything below that is just telephantisms.
Regards,
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