Chapter 18 - Service Configuration in the IMS

Chapter 17 provided a description of the protocols at the user’s disposal for configuring services on the Internet. We saw that the service configuration architecture assumes an XML document stored on a server. The client retrieves a copy of the XML document, makes changes to it, and sends the delta back to the server. In IMS, the architecture for service configuration architecture is developed around the XML Document Management (XDM) architecture created by the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) in the XDM [244] set of specifications. ...