RE: IP over MIME (was Re: WAP Is A Trap -- Reject WAP)

[Steve Deering]

At 4:16 PM -0400 6/21/00, Brijesh Kumar wrote:
>WAP's goal is not to replace IP, but mediate between non-IP wireless
>devices, and existing IP based wire line applications.

There are no "IP based wire line applications".  Applications based on IP
don't depend on, or know, or care that their packets flow over wires or
fibres or RF waves or IR waves or wet string, or any combination thereof.
That's one of the neat things about IP.

Steve