Re: Why are we here? What are our goals?
Paul Crowley <[email protected]>
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"Hallam-Baker, Phillip" <[email protected]> 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. -- __ Paul Crowley \/ o\ [email protected] /\__/ http://www.ciphergoth.org/