FOUNDATION FOR INTELLIGENT
PHYSICAL AGENTS
FIPA Agent Message Transport Protocol
for WAP Specification
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Document title |
FIPA Agent Message Transport Protocol for WAP Specification |
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Document number |
XC00076B |
Document source |
FIPA Agent Management |
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Document status |
Experimental |
Date of this status |
2000/06/13 |
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Supersedes |
FIPA00024 |
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Contact |
fab@fipa.org |
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Change history |
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2000/06/13 |
Approved for Experimental |
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© 2000 Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents - http://www.fipa.org/
Geneva, Switzerland
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Notice |
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Foreword
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promoting the industry of intelligent agents by openly developing
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Contents
2 Message Transport Protocol for WAP
This document is part
of the FIPA specifications and deals with message transportation between
inter-operating agents. This document also forms part of the FIPA Agent
Management Specification [FIPA00023] and contains specifications for:
·
The transportation
of messages between agents using Wireless Application Protocol (WAP - see
[WAP99]).
This MTP is based on WAP which represents the entire agent message (including the message envelope) in a WAP message. Once the message has been received, the message envelope is parsed by the ACC and the message is handled according to the instructions and information given in the message envelope.
The following rules apply when using WAP:
· The transport addresses given must be complete, for example, wap://foo.com/acc for a WAP phone or a http://bar.com/acc for a WAP content server in a wireline network.
· The WAP content type for any data transfer must be set to x-application/fipa-message.
The WAP specification defines two modes of interaction between wireless client devices and hosts in a wireline network: through a WAP gateway and to a WAP server. The specification of this MTP does not distinguish between these. However, it should be noted that these two modes lead to different combinations of interfaces for the wireless and wireline environment hosts.
Supporting
information about the management of wireless communication environments for
agent communication can be found in [FIPA00014].
The name assigned to
this component:
fipa.mts.mtp.wap.std
The syntax used for the message envelope is that defined in [FIPA00085].
[FIPA00014] FIPA Nomadic
Application Support Specification. Foundation for
Intelligent Physical Agents, 2000. http://www.fipa.org/specs/fipa00014/
[FIPA00023] FIPA Agent
Management Specification. Foundation for Intelligent
Physical Agents, 2000. http://www.fipa.org/specs/fipa00023/
[FIPA00067] FIPA Agent Message Transport Service Specification. Foundation for Intelligent Physical Agents, 2000. http://www.fipa.org/specs/fipa00067/
[FIPA00085] FIPA Agent Message Transport Envelope
Representation in XML Specification. Foundation for
Intelligent Physical Agents, 2000.
http://www.fipa.org/specs/fipa00085/
[WAP99] Wireless Application Protocol
Specification Version 1.2. WAP Forum, 1999.
http://www.wapforum.org/what/technical.htm