The road to hell, they say, is paved with good intentions. For protocols, the intentions are usually: to “make it simple” to “integrate it into the existing system” or to “allow it to work independently” Where the “hells” are, respectively: under-defined standards inconsistencies ambiguities It’s very hard to write a standard that avoids all these. In fact, if I took the time, I could prove that from the theorem “any
(read more...)
By Ran Arad | July 30th, 2008 | Filed under Development, Standardization
Last week I was in Finland. And it snowed. And it was dark. And we had an interoperability conference for 3G-324M and for IMS Video Share. And in that location in time and space, these two things were very close physically, but a world apart conceptually.In one world, there was the 3G-324M. This protocol has become popular with vendors of 3G phones, and it is now reaching an envious level of maturity: the basic functions work well, and vendors are
(read more...)
By Ran Arad | January 28th, 2008 | Filed under Interoperability
On January 21-25 2008, an IMTC 3G-324M and IMS Activity Groups Face2Face event will take place in Finland hosted by Nokia. This is going to be the second time that Nokia hosts such an event in their lovely town, Tampere, in this cold season of the year. Will it be cold as it sounds? I am not so sure about that…This is going to be the second event for the IMS AG, while 3G-324M AG did so many
(read more...)
By Oren Libis | January 9th, 2008 | Filed under Interoperability
