Eric Burger (eburger@snowshore.com)
Mon, 26 Mar 2001 08:29:17 -0500
The Message Context draft,
<http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-vpim-hint-04.txt>,
enumerates a "SMS Context".
The normative text is:
The short-message class states the message is a short
text message, such as a short text message service (SMS)
message or text pager message.
An excerpt of the informative text is:
[snip]
...
People use SMS for relatively urgent messages, which
the sender wishes the receiver to see and possibly
respond to within a short time period.
[snip]
In Minneapolis at the vpim work group meeting, we discussed whether there is
really a SMS context. If, by SMS, we focus on the transport, there is not
really a SMS context. This is because most modern Internet mail-SMS
gateways do a good enough job preserving header semantics and packetizing
messages to fit into the 160 character limit of SMS.
However, if we focus on the "urgency" aspect, there may be something we want
to capture. In particular, one can argue there is a context for what is
essentially a text or numeric page. That is, a urgent message of very
modest length.
That said, do we need a "urgent, short message" (e.g. "Pager") message
context, or is it enough to have a text-message with a low Priority header?
Responses appreciated.
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