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This draft is a work item of the Enhancements to Internet email to support diverse service environments Working Group of the IETF.
Title : Goals for Internet Messaging to Support Diverse
Service Environments
Author(s) : J. Wong
Filename : draft-ietf-lemonade-goals-00.txt
Pages : 33
Date : 2003-6-24
The mission of LEMONADE -- Internet Messaging to support diverse service
environments -- is to provide a set of enhancements and profiles to Internet email to facilitate operation on platforms with constrained resources, or communications links with high latency or limited bandwidth. The enhanced mail service must continue to support conventional environments seamlessly.
The primary driver for this effort is, by making Internet mail protocols
richer and more media and environment-savvy, to allow their use over the
mobile Internet.
Stressing the needs of wireless handheld devices, a discussion is given of what is required of Internet messaging protocols to enable the support of multimedia messaging on limited capability messaging clients in diverse service environments. Also included is a list of general principles to guide the design of the enhanced messaging protocols. Finally, some issues around providing seamless service between enhanced Internet email and the existing separate mobile messaging infrastructure are briefly listed.
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