scope:

The present document is intended to define a set of consistent and complete requirements. Nevertheless, during the ongoing discussion, new requirements can come up. Hence, from the start on, the requirements (as well as the initial architecture) are intended to be relevant and adequate for future mobile thin client systems, while exhibiting the necessary flexibility to cope with new requirements.

The basic idea considered in mobile thin client system concerns nomadic users and addresses remote application access. User terminals considered range from laptops to smart phones, and applications should be delivered transparently (i.e. without changing the application code itself). This basic setting is further developed in the present document into more specific scenarios.

The following issues are excluded from the present document:

• Security;

• detailed implementations of AAA including billing mechanism;

• seamless handover;

• optimization of external resources, like application image server or data storage server.