RE: [lemonade] some questions in draft-ietf-lemonade-notifications-03

["Ben Last" <Ben.Last at emccsoft.com>]

Zoltan.Ordogh at nokia.com [mailto:Zoltan.Ordogh at nokia.com] wrote on 09
August 2006 09:57:

>Ben,
>Why would anyone use MMS for notification? It it nothing more than a
WAP Push (well, there is a bit more but from email notification point of
view
>nothing useful). Why not use WAP Push right away (without all the
hassle that comes with MMS)?

I'd guess that it's because all the WAP-push-and-fetch functionality is
handled by the platform.  For example, on a Symbian-based device, it's
easy to write a watcher process that will spot incoming MMS messages and
process them, so from the point of view of the programmer you get a
messaging system that will handle large messages as simply as SMS
handles small ones, without any additional hassle.  Sure, it's more
complex from the OS's point of view, but that's hidden from the
programmer.  Similarly, most message-service providers provide APIs
(over HTTP or RPC) that make sending MMS messages as easy as sending
SMSs.

Regards
Ben
EMCC Software Ltd

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