About The LEAP Manifesto

The purpose of The LEAP Manifesto is to provide a complete description of the LEAP protocols and their intended role in the development of the Mobile Messaging industry. The Manifesto includes:

• An overview of the Mobile Messaging industry, and a description of the essential factors that are required for its long term success and growth.
• A technical description of the LEAP protocols themselves.
• A description of the process used to develop the LEAP protocols, and how and why this differs from the conventional development process.
• Technical descriptions of key aspects of the LEAP protocols, including their efficiency, and their implementation on Windows CE devices and Palm OS devices.
• An analysis of several closed Mobile Messaging solutions (e.g. WAP), and a description of LEAP's superiority to these closed solutions.
• A description of our strategy for encouraging widespread usage of the LEAP protocols, including the distribution of open-source software implementations of the protocols, and the availability of free subscriber services.

Manifesto Organization

The LEAP Manifesto is organized as a series of largely independent articles. Each of these articles stands on its own, and can be read and understood independently of the others. Together, these articles provide a complete picture of the Mobile Messaging industry and the role of the LEAP protocols. Since each article is intended to be self-contained, some material is duplicated in more than one article.

The LEAP Manifesto consists of the following articles:

• Executive Summary. An overview summary of the entire LEAP Manifesto. The Executive Summary provides a brief description of all the major elements of the manifesto.
  First Published: 2000/8/4 Last Updated: 2000/12/5
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• Part I: The LEAP Protocols
  • Overview of the LEAP Protocols. A general overview description of the LEAP protocols.
    First Published: August 4, 2000
    Last Updated: August 8, 2000
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  • The LEAP Protocol Development Model. A description of the processes used to develop the LEAP protocols, and how and why these differ from conventional development processes. This article also includes a criticism of the IETF protocol development processes.
    First Published: August 4, 2000
    Last Updated: June 16, 2000
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  • Free Protocols Foundation Policies and Procedures A description of the Free Protocols Foundations processses to ensure the development and maintenance of patent-free protocols.
    First Published: March 29, 2000
    Last Updated: June 26, 2000
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  • ESRO: A Foundation for the Development of Efficient Protocols. A technical description of ESRO, the transport mechanism component of LEAP.
    First Published: August 4, 2000
    Last Updated: August 9, 2000
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  • EMSD: The LEAP E-Mail Component. A technical description of EMSD, the e-mail component of LEAP.
    First Published: August 4, 2000
    Last Updated: July 14, 2000
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  • Efficiency of EMSD. A technical paper analyzing the efficiency characteristics of EMSD and comparing its efficiency to other e-mail protocols.
    First Published: October 23, 1996
    Last Updated: August 16, 2000
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  • A Brief History of LEAP. A summary of the major events in the evolution of the LEAP protocols.
    First Published: August 4, 2000
    Last Updated: September 20, 2000
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  • The Future of LEAP. A description of the planned future development of LEAP, including descriptions of several LEAP-based products and services which are currently under development.
    First Published: August 4, 2000
    Last Updated: June 14, 2000
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• Part II: LEAPing Over Closed Solutions
  • The WAP Trap. A detailed criticism of a set of specifications called the Wireless Application Protocol, or WAP. This article demonstrates that WAP is entirely unfit to play the role of a Mobile Messaging industry standard.
    First Published: April 3, 2000
    Last Updated: May 26, 2000
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  • LEAP: One Alternative to WAP. A point-by-point comparison of the LEAP protocols to the WAP specifications. This article demonstrates that LEAP has all the desirable characteristics of an industry standard protocol that WAP lacks.
    First Published: August 4, 2000
    Last Updated: December 6, 2000
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  • WAP Scraps. A discussion of what can be salvaged from what remains of WAP.
    First Published: August 28, 2001
    Last Updated: August 28, 2001
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  • WAP Scraps. A description of what to do with what is left of WAP
    First Published: 2001/8/13 Last Updated: 2001/8/13
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  • Operation Whiteberry. A description of how equivalent functionality to the closed BlackBerry mobile messaging solution can be implemented based on a completely open model, using existing open-source software implementations of LEAP, and existing off-the-shelf hardware components.
    First Published: February 27, 2001
    Last Updated: August 2, 2001
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• Part III: Making LEAP Widespread
  • Strategy for Making LEAP Widespread. A description of our strategy for encouraging widespread usage of the LEAP protocols, including the distribution of open-source software implementations of the protocols, and the availability of free subscriber services.
    First Published: August 4, 2000
    Last Updated: August 8, 2000
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  • EMSD on Windows CE. A technical paper describing the architecture and implementation of EMSD on Windows CE devices.
    First Published: March 3, 1997
    Last Updated: August 16, 2000
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  • LEAP on Palm OS. A technical paper describing the architecture and implementation of LEAP on Palm OS devices.
    First Published: TBD
    Last Updated: TBD
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  • Trying out LEAP. A step-by-step, hands-on demonstration of how the LEAP protocols can be used to turn any Windows CE device into a fully functional Mobile Messaging device.
    First Published: June 12, 1998
    Last Updated: June 12, 2000
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  • WhiteBerry and Bluetooth. A description of how WhiteBerry and Bluetooth can be used in combination to bring new and enhanced messaging capabilities to the mobile professional.
    First Published: July 27, 2001
    Last Updated: July 31, 2001
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  • Use of EMSD for Mail Notification. A description of how EMSD can be used to provide a general Mail Notification service.
    First Published: TBD
    Last Updated: TBD
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  • Lessons From History: Comparative Case Studies. An analysis of the factors which lead to the success or failure of protocols, including discussions of several historical case studies.
    First Published: August 4, 2000
    Last Updated: July 7, 2000
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• Part IV: The Mobile Messaging Industry
  • The Mobile Messaging Industry. An overview of the Mobile Messaging industry, and a description of the essential factors that are required for its long term success and growth.
    First Published: August 4, 2000
    Last Updated: August 10, 2000
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Draft Articles

The LEAP Manifesto is a work in progress, and various additional articles are planned for future inclusion in the Manifesto.

Some of these future articles already exist in draft form, and are available for review in the Draft Documents section of the LEAP Forum website at http://www.leapforum.org/draft-leapManifesto/. As these and other articles are completed, they will be incorporated into the Manifesto.

Getting the Manifesto

The LEAP Manifesto and all of its component articles are available in multiple formats, including HTML, PDF, PostScript, and plain text. You can view or download the Manifesto in any of these formats from the LEAP Forum website at http://www.LeapForum.org/leap/index.html. The LEAP Manifesto is also available at the Free Protocols Foundation website at http://www.FreeProtocols.org/leap/index.html.