Re: Mobile Multimedia Messaging Service

[Lloyd Wood <l.wood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, Mohsen BANAN-Public wrote:

> The beauty of the Internet End-to-End model is that people don't have
> to wait for the IETF to create a working group, a charter, a chair,
> , blessings, .... to move forward.

well, sure, if you don't mind moving forward all by yourself.

> Remember the web (http, ...)? 
> What was IETF's role in Internet's main modern application?

standardising TCP and MIME. Standardising HTTP (RFC2616 and earlier.)

Quite a lot, even if you think the web's just a convergence of
developments from SGML to GIF.

L.

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