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Title : Benefits and Motivation for Session Mode Instant Messaging
Author(s) : R. Mahy
Filename : draft-mahy-simple-why-session-mode-00.txt
Pages : 13
Date : 2004-2-10
The SIMPLE working group describes one or more messages sent
completely independently as 'pager-mode' messages, whereas messaging
associated with as part of a 'session' with a definite start and end
is called session mode messaging. The SIMPLE community has received
numerous comments and complaints from the larger IM community that
session mode is more complex than pager mode messaging. However,
session mode messaging has a number of benefits which are not
available in pager mode, but these benefits have not been widely
articulated and this value is not well understood outside the SIP/
SIMPLE community. This document attempts to describe the benefits of
session mode, such as explicit rendezvous, integration with other
media, direct client-to-client operation, and brokered privacy and
security, in an accessible manner.
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