Standards

The desire to gain access to rich, multimediabased information anywhere, anytime grows enormously. Web sites without multimediaenriched information—including text, images, audio, and video samples—might no longer be appropriate to satisfy today’s users. The appetite for accessing multimedia-based content via almost any type of terminals—seamlessly over dynamic and heterogeneous networks, independently of location or time—is similarly growing. To achieve such access, the research and standardization communities have launched an initiative called Universal Multimedia Access (UMA). 1,2 However, UMA tools and specifications that have so far emerged concentrate mostly on constraint