[Chapter-delegates] Content reformatting - Standards issue - local debacle

[Marcin Cieslak]

Alan Levin wrote:
> Hi all,
> If there are any other chapters or individuals that work on these  
> types of issues and have any useful information or comments about  
> this, please be in contact. We appreciate any questions, advice and  
> feedback.

Unfortunately, we don't have the experience yet. However, I have a 
similar project in the pipeline - to carry out a systematic comparative 
test of various mobile Internet access provider to check to what extent 
does the product delivered can be called "Internet access".

Apart from the obvious shortcomings of NAT (almost every provider I have 
used gives me a RFC1918) there are issues with the messaging 
(non-compliant email behaviour as per MIME for example) and finally - as 
you mention - various forms of application level proxying.

For example, the Vodafone in Germany insists that pre-paid users go via 
the proxy (so called "WAP proxy" although it has no longer anything to 
do with WAP). but we haven't noticed any obvious issues with this.

My idea would be to come up with a common project among various chapters 
to develop a reasonable test methodology to check standards-compliance 
of the Internet offering of mobile providers. And the end-to-end 
principle of RFC 1122 should be considered important one, I think.

I understand that you need something _now_, however.

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               << Marcin Cieslak // saper at saper.info >>

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