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Re: Why are we here? What are our goals?

2004-01-30 02:03:50

"Hallam-Baker, Phillip" <pbaker(_at_)verisign(_dot_)com> writes:

Another set of plausible items to add would be

      - Alignment with Web Services
      - Mandated 8-bit clean transport (e.g. DIME).
      - Moving beyond the text email with attachments idea.

I don't think that a replacement for SMTP is worthwhile unless it provides a
major increase in functionality. I would want to see something that
integrates the functionality of instant messaging, video conferencing, mail,
audio, video p2p and resource syndication.

I agree on instant messaging, and possibly also resource syndication.
I would not have thought that video conferencing would go on the list
since that has a very different set of demands - for example,
timelyness is more important than reliability.
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