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To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: Arnt Gulbrandsen <arnt@gulbrandsen.priv.no>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:53 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] If Crispin were creating IMAP today how would
 it be different?
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Bill Janssen writes:
> Mobility is more of a fact than a problem?  What's the particular
> problem there?  Multiple end-points?  Intermittent connections?

Phones tend to jump from WLAN to 3G or back every three minutes, which 
makes any protocol based on long-lived TCP connections philosophically 
difficult. Possible to implement, of course, but difficult to do in a way 
that fits well with the design choices that led to it being based on 
long-lived connections.

Arnt


