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Building a House of Cards: On the Intrinsic Challenges of Evolving Communication Standards

Authors:
Jean-Charles Grégoire

Keywords: Feature Interaction; RCS; SIP; OMA CPM; OMA SIMPLE IM; IMS.

Abstract:
A critical look at a recent communications standard exposes how matters of feature interaction remain pervasive, not necessarily at a horizontal level, but also through layers of the architectures. This situation arises from the emergence of new standards or popular services based on earlier infrastructures, generic support middleware as well as emerging technologies. Several illustrations of such problems are presented and discussed in this paper, as illustrations of problems to try to avoid in practice. We show how the industrial practices remain lacking but also how some of the difficulties around the emergence of feature interactions are deeply linked to the standardization process.

Pages: 1 to 6

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2014

Publication date: April 20, 2014

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4006

ISBN: 978-1-61208-330-8

Location: Chamonix, France

Dates: from April 20, 2014 to April 24, 2014